Quotes About Empathy

Admire yourself and others will admire you', a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: 'Know thyself', which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.

Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.

for men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

When you want to obtain something touching a man's self-respect, you must spare his pride even the appearance of suffering.

And without waiting for the answer of the newcomer to this proof of affection, M. de Treville seized his right hand and pressed it with all his might, without perceiving that Athos, whatever might be his self-command, allowed a slight murmur of pain to escape him, and if possible, grew paler than he was before.

Avete mai provato per qualcuno una di quelle irresistibili simpatie che fanno sì che vedendo una persona per la prima volta, credete di conoscerlo da lungo tempo, e vi domandate dove è quando l'abbiate vista, cosicché, non potendo ricordarvi né il luogo né il tempo finite con il credere che sia stato in un mondo anteriore al nostri, e che questa simpatia sia un ricordo che si risvegli?

Well, so much the better for him,' said the inspector. 'When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.' As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.

But if you have never loved, what right have you to boast that you've suffered?

have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me. Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first

God speaks to your heart and your heart speaks to you. Tell me what it says.

it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!" "What

Believe me, when a woman loves a man, you do not win her heart by crossing swords with him.

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

Ah! —dijo Montecristo—, es uno de los orgullos de nuestra pobre humanidad el creerse cada hombre más desgraciado que cualquier otro que gime y llora a su lado.

Herkes bir a??zdan konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlam??t?, kimse kar??s?ndakinin ona söylediÄŸi ÅŸeye yan?t vermeye çal??m?yor, sadece kendi düÅŸünceleriyle ilgileniyordu.

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

çünkü gözyaÅŸlar?n?z beni k?sa süre sonra ölecek olmamdan daha çok üzüyor.

As a result of the sympathetic devotion which Jacopo had from the first bestowed on Edmond, the latter was moved to a certain degree of affection.

Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.

A good deed is never lost.

Ah!, caballero —respondió Caderousse—, no se puede consolar al que no quiere ser consolado, y

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?