Quotes: Social Interaction (2)

 Social interaction            139         "To be able to live among men and women we must allow everyone to exist with his given individuality." Schopenhauer. 1851. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Social interaction            139         "If there were only two men in the world, how would they get on? They would help one another, harm one another, flatter one another…fight one another, make it up; they could neither live together nor do without one another." Voltaire. 1764. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Social interaction            140         "In the presence of some people we inevitably depart from ourselves: we are inaccurate, say things we do not feel, and talk nonsense; when we get home we are conscious that we have made fools of ourselves; never go near these people." Mark Rutheford. 1910. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Social interaction            141         "Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize your antipathies." W. R. Inge. 1931. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Social interaction          142        "Ignorance alone makes monsters or bugbears; our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people." Hazlitt. 1822. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.