He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.