"Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship."
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"To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense."
"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
"A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor."
"It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani."
"Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor."
"Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him."
"Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves."
"I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them."
"People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich."
"The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm."
"People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are."
"My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day."
"One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things."
"Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs."
"The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it."
"Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come."
"We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets."
"For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?"
"Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders."