Quotes About Judgment

the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.

Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.

To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.

When they saw him making money, they said, He is a man of business. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, He is an ambitious man. When he was seen to decline honors, they said, He is an adventurer. When they saw him repulse society, they said, He is a brute.

No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated by a sense of the dark reality of existence. It seemed as if there were experience in this dawning being. Did he, perchance, already exercise judgment? Experience coming too early constructs, sometimes, in the obscure depths of a child's mind, some dangerous balance--we know not what--in which the poor little soul weighs God. Feeling himself innocent, he yielded. There was no complaint

Now, there's a young man who looks like a real pedant, for you!

Se per caso capiva che la sua infermità si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondità presso alcuni, per imbecillità presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perchè un giudice può essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no.

He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.

Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.

in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

M. Myriel devait subir le sort de tout nouveau venu dans une petite ville où il y a beaucoup de bouches qui parlent et fort peu de têtes qui pensent.

La scarcerazione non è liberazione. Si esce dal bagno penale ma non dalla condanna.

He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, Examine the road over which the fault has passed.

our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

She found him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, conceited, offensive, impertinent—and extremely ugly. The

had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

Cuando lo vieron ganar dinero, dijeron: es un comerciante. Cuando lo vieron repartir el dinero, dijeron: es un ambicioso. Cuando lo vieron rechazar los honores, dijeron: es un aventurero. Cuando lo vieron rechazar el trato social, dijeron: es un borrico.

Se un'anima è piena d'ombra, il peccato vi si commette; ma il colpevole non è quegli che ha fatto il peccato, bensì colui che ha fatto l'ombra.»

Na verdade, se nos fosse dado penetrar com os olhos da carne na consciência dos outros, julgaríamos com mais segurança um homem pelo que devaneia do que pelo que pensa. O pensamento é absolutamente espontâneo, toma e conserva, mesmo no gigantesco e no ideal, a figura do nosso espírito. Não há coisa que mais directa e profundamente saia do fundo da nossa alma do que as nossas aspirações irreflectidas e desmesuradas para os esplendores do destino