If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.