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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

— Hesiod

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

— Julian Baggini

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

— Jennifer Pahlka

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

— Euripides

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

— Rose Kennedy

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

— Edward Coke

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

— Ambrose Bierce

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

— Publilius Syrus

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

— James Truslow Adams

✗Opposing Perspectives

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

— Mother Angelica