Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
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 man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.