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Quotes about Judgment

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
— Marcus Aurelius
Have you reason? 'I have.' Then why not use it? If reason does its part, what more would you ask?
— Marcus Aurelius
It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing.
— Marcus Aurelius
When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)
— Marcus Aurelius
That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out!
— Marcus Aurelius
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now
— Marcus Aurelius
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
— Cicero
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
— Margaret Atwood
It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.
— Margaret Atwood
Men don't like to think about makeup, they like to think everything about you is genuine. Unless of course they want to think you're a slut and everything about you is fake.
— Margaret Atwood
I walk away from her, guilt on my hands, absolving myself: I'm a good person. She could have been dying. No one else stopped. I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly
— Margaret Atwood
A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!
— Margaret Atwood