Neighborly Influence Quotes

In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

We need as all nations do, the compression on the outside of our circle a formidable neighbor, whose presence shall at all times excite stronger fears than demagogues can inspire the people with towards their government.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.