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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.
Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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