Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
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