Do not have too artificial an idea of man but…

Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don’t consider him too good or too bad. It is a golden rule that one should not judge people according to their opinions, but according to what these opinions make of them.

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Variants: It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them. One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

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