Go Straight to the Good in Everything
"It is the happy lot of those
with good taste. The bee goes straight for the sweetness, and the viper for the
bitterness it needs for its poison. So with tastes: some go for the best,
others for the worst. There is nothing that doesn't have some good, especially
books, where good is imagined. Some people's temperaments are so unfortunate
that among a thousand perfections they will find a single defect and censure it
and blow it all out of proportion. They are the garbage collectors of the will and
the intellect, burdened down with blemishes and defects: punishment for their
poor discernment rather than proof of their subtlety. They are unhappy, for
they batten on bitterness and graze on imperfections. Others have a happier
sort of taste: among a thousand defects they discover some perfection that good
luck happened to drop."
Baltasar Gracian
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