You’re going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.[Les gens se dépêchent alors de juger pour ne pas l’être eux-mêmes.]
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws.
The senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.[Dass die Sinne nicht irren, aber nicht darum, weil sie jederzeit richtig urtheilen, sondern weil sie gar nicht urtheilen.]
The more a man judges the less he loves.[Also known as:]The more one judges, the less one loves.[Plus on juge, moins on aime.]
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
It is not for me to judge another person’s life. Only for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.
It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you are truly a wise man.[translation by Richard Howard]It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.[translation by Katherine Woods][Il est bien plus difficile de se juger soi-même que de juger autrui. Si tu réussis à bien te juger, c’est que tu es un véritable sage.]
