Arthur Schopenhauer. thoughts (№ 411590)

"Pardon's the word to all". We must be condescending to all human stupidity, blunder, vice, taking into account that it is precisely our own stupidity, blunders and vices, for these are the shortcomings of humanity, to to which we also belong, and therefore, we ourselves share all of its shortcomings, that is, those that we are indignant with just at this time precisely because this time they did not manifest themselves in ourselves. They are not on the surface, but are rooted in the base and will emerge on the first occasion and declare themselves in the same way as they have now manifested in others; although there is no doubt that in one one flaw creeps in, and in the other another again, and that the general complexity of bad properties in some is greater than in others, for the individual difference is incalculably great.