If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
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.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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