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Gotama Buddha

c. 5th century BC · the Ganges plain, India

Do not look at the faults of others, or at what others have done and left undone. Look at what you yourself have done and left undone.

Na paresaṁ vilomāni, na paresaṁ katākataṁ; Attanova avekkheyya, katāni akatāni ca.

Dhammapada 50

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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Jane Austen

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“And your defect is to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”

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Gotama Buddha

c. 5th century BC · the Ganges plain, India

The faults of others are easy to see; one's own are hard to see.

Sudassaṁ vajjamaññesaṁ, attano pana duddasaṁ

Dhammapada 252

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