
“He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
Maxim 386.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Plutarch Solon, ch. 18; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+18.1
Having been asked what city was best to live in.
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)
“The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.”
The Mantle of St. John de Matha, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wake up, Parents http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell081800.asp, Jewish World Review, 18 August 2000.
2000s
“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”
Source: Every Day
“Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.”
“Those who trusted at the wrong time and place will in turn mistrust at the wrong time and place.”
Der am unrechten Orte vertraute, wird dafür am unrechten Orte mißtrauen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.