“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
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English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859Related quotes
“Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal.”
Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.
Letter 4, 6.
Letters, Book III
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Variant: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Source: Complete Works - Volume XII
Otros todos son ajenos, que la necedad siempre va por demasías, y aquí infeliz: no tienen día, ni aun hora suya, con tal exceso de ajenos, que alguno fue llamado “el de todos”.
Aun en el entendimiento, que para todos saben y para sí ignoran.
Maxim 252
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“He who refuses nothing…will soon have nothing to refuse.”
XII, 79.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
“In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”
D'ordinaire, ceux qui gouvernent les enfants ne leur pardonnent rien, et se pardonnent tout à eux-mêmes.
Traité de l'éducation des filles, ch. 5, cited from De l'éducation des filles, dialogues des morts et opuscules divers (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857) p. 15; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829) p. 137. (1687).
“What is compassion? Compassionate are those who can put themselves in other people’s shoes.”
Quotes from Word of Wisdoms Vol.3
Source: 1850s, Letter to Henry L. Pierce (1859), p. 377
