Andere / Others Könnte / Could Noch nie / Never Schaden / Harm Schmeichelei / Flattery Schmeicheln / Flatter Tat / Did Uns / Us Uns selbst / Ourselves
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
