If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
Is Eden out of time and out of space?
And do you gather about us when pale light
Shining on water and fallen among leaves,
And winds blowing from flowers, and whirr of feathers
And the green quiet, have uplifted the heart?
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)