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If we have admired someone by finding him perfect and then discover his faults, it is not easy for us to judge him fairly. Our vanity is also at play, for we have been deceived and do not want to admit it, and it flatters us to believe that we have been deceived from the inside, thus throwing all the blame, anger and a kind of hatred on the unfortunate person, who in fact contributed nothing to the fact that we were quick to take him for what he did not ask to be taken.

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If we have admired someone by finding him perfect and then discover his faults, it is not easy for us to judge him fairly. Our vanity is also at play, for we have been deceived and do not want to admit it, and it flatters us to believe that we have been deceived from the inside, thus throwing all the blame, anger and a kind of hatred on the unfortunate person, who in fact contributed nothing to the fact that we were quick to take him for what he did not ask to be taken.

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Romanian

"Dacă am admirat pe cineva găsindu-l desăvârșit și-i descoperim apoi defectele, nu ne vine ușor să-l judecăm cu echitate. E în joc și vanitatea noastră, căci ne-am înșelat și nu vrem s-o recunoaștem, și ne flatează să credem că am fost înșelați dinadins, aruncând astfel toată vina, supărarea și un soi de ură asupra nefericitului, care în fond n-a contribuit cu nimic la faptul că ne-am pripit să-l luăm drept ceea ce nu cerea să fie luat."

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