Affect

Famous quotes containing the word affect:

“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“People have no concern over things that do not affect themselves.”
—Chinese proverb.