350. — Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself

I think the hardest people in the world to forgive are the people we once were, the people we are trying desperately to not stir into the recipe of who we are now.

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.

We are always harshest upon those foibles we see in others that we know bedevil our own natures - the ones that most gravely misbecome our self image - for blame is always easier than shame.

It is easier to be cruel, or unfair, to people in groups and in the abstract; harder to do so toward a specific person in your midst,

The hardest people in the world to forgive are the people we once were.

It's tough to be tough on people.

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.

The more people there are who proclaim themselves victims over tiny
infractions, the harder it becomes to see who the real victims actually are.

Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que d'en être trompé.