This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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