„Mnozí se zlobí na ty, kteří je upozorňují na jejich nedostatky, když by se měli zlobit jen na nedostatky, na které jej jim upozorňováno.“

Originál: (en) Many men are angry with them that tell them of their faults, when they should be angry only with the faults that are told them.
Zdroj: [Foster, Elon, New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching : Embracing Mythology, Analogies, Legends, Parables, Emblems, Metaphors, Similes, Allegories, Proverbs, Classic, Historic, and Religious Anecdotes, Etc, https://books.google.cz/books?id=TIkmAQAAIAAJ&dq, W. C. Palmer, Jr., & Co, New York, 1875, 704, 556, angličtina]