“Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that's on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.22
(”모든 것은 당신의 가정에 달려 있으며, 그것은 당신에게 달려 있습니다. 마음대로 성급한 판단을 내릴 수 있고, 배를 조종하듯 잔잔한 바다, 맑은 날씨, 안전한 항구를 찾을 수 있습니다."-마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 명상, 12.22)
"Even a dog," Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked." Yet if you've ever accidentally stepped on your dog, you know that the first reaction is usually a bark or a yelp or a quick snap of the jaws. In the instant, there is no distinction-just pain. Then it sees who it was, hears your soothing voice, and goes right back to wagging its tail.
A virtuous person does not jump to hasty judgments about other people. A virtuous person is generous with assumptions: that something was an accident, that someone didn't know, that it...
