Quotes

"Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it is threatened to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection. Hence it is that if, as often happens, we make a mistake about a man, it is because at the beginning of our acquaintance with him we confound his defects with the kind of perfection to which they are allied. The cautious man seems to us a coward, the economical man a miser, the spendthrift seems liberal, the ride fellow, downright and sincere; the fool hardy person looks as if he were going to work with a noble self confidence and so on in many other cases" ~ Arthur Schopenhauer