“Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.”

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

“Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.”

“To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.”

“But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, 'That is all there was!' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.”

“There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them”

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”