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

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

“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.”

“Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.”

“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.”

“But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.”