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“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”
— Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part II, Section 4 (1642).
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”
— Demosthenes, as quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley, p. 34.
“When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure?”
— Epictetus, Golden Sayings of Epictetus, 172, as translated by Hastings Crossley.
“Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.”
— Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.
“The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.”
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688).
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
— Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726).

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