Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.