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“A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.”

Men Philosophy Happens Blame Ill Philosopher Vulgar Calamity Novices

Author:Epictetus

“It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.”

Understanding Praise Blame Ill

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.”

“It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.”

Men Should Use Evil Bears Blame Ill Fitting Intemperance Not Fitting

Author:Isocrates

“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.”

Men Giving Years Wells Heart Made Soul Hate Youth Praise Blame Ill Ugly Gentle Receiving Delighted Distaste

Author:Plato

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.”

People Writing Voice Secret Fame Praise Blame Meetings Ill Admire Transactions Chatter Writing Poetry

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?”

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Author:Moderata Fonte

“It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.”

Men Conditions Blame Lays Ill Instruction

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.”

Persons Self Blame Ill Uneducated

Book:Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments

Source: Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments