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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.


Joseph Conrad

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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
PROVERB When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart
RUSSIAN PROVERB One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
OSCAR WILDE Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE Judge a man not by his income, but by his outcome.
SCOTT SORRELL Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
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GILES FODEN Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes
THOMAS DEWAR Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
VOLTAIRE I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
TAMER HASSAN Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
G. C LICHTENBERG Never judge a man by his umbrella. It may not be his.
ANON. Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies
ARABIAN PROVERB Judge a man by the comments of his neighbour rather than by the words of his mother.
VIKRANT PARSAI You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
CASSANDRA CLARE If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...
SASKYA PANDITA Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Never judge a man by his relatives; he didn’t choose them.
VIKRANT PARSAI Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANT You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
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DWIGHT W. HAYES You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking.
J.K. ROWLING As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man
IMMANUEL KANT A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has ...
CHIEF LONG SPEAR WHO HUNTS BEAVERS Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
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NED BEAUMAN The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
KAREN MARIE MONING By any measure, Conrad Burns is in deep trouble in his efforts to win re-election.
WHIT AYRES Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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CARL JUNG Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG By perfect good karma, you shall meet the True Guru, and then the Dear Lord, by His Sweet Will, shal...
GURU GOBIND SINGH Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it.
VIKRANT PARSAI In all of life, we encounter people who accept or betray us; there is no other way around it! The fr...
TIMOTHY WATERHOUSE I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened...
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SUZY KASSEM You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his que...
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested...
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FRANCINE RIVERS You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ...
AMARI SOUL How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?
Is Everyman fated as an ...
DAVID B. LENTZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
EPICTETUS Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil ...
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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MEIR SOLOVEICHIK You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
PAUL MCCARTNEY It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a m...
IMMANUEL KANT You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
ILKA CHASE You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours
ILKA CHASE A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one o...
JOHN ADAMS The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks...
JOSIAH ROYCE A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this ma...
COLIN FIRTH Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender sm...
SUZY KASSEM Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
BIBLE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intenti...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
JAMES CASH PENNEY Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strengt...
STEPHANIE LAHART Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN You listen to me, woman: you’re mine! I’ll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!” Hi...
SHIRLEE BUSBEE Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted neg...
ADITYA AJMERA A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWARD CHAPIN A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no m...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as...
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JOSEPH CONRAD The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom
JOSEPH CONRAD It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory
JOSEPH CONRAD Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagin...
JOSEPH CONRAD The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib...
JOSEPH CONRAD For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to a...
JOSEPH CONRAD It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose
JOSEPH CONRAD God is for men and religion is for women
JOSEPH CONRAD I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could las...
JOSEPH CONRAD It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility
JOSEPH CONRAD As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wa...
JOSEPH CONRAD We live, as we dream alone
JOSEPH CONRAD The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD