The hunchback sees the hump of others -- never his own.
One should speak a little with others and a lot with oneself.
Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers.
The tar of my country is better than the honey of others.
What comes out of one mouth goes into a hundred others.
They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others.
What you give to others bears fruit for yourself.
Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.
You can judge what you make by what others make.
He who is covered with other people's clothes is naked.
Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts all others.
If one soldier knew what the other thinks, there would be no war.
Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither gree...
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two person...
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Ch...
I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors....
