People with brilliant minds and extraordinary capacities think little of admitting or exposing their weaknesses and faults. For them, they represent something for which they have paid, something that they deserve to have. They might even feel that their errors do them honor and help define them better.
On the other hand there are the mediocre minds, who would rather conceal and hide their few little faults, as they are very sensitive to any references that are made to them. This happens because the mediocre mind has another scale of values, one in which a person’s worth is defined by its lack of defects or errors, and not by its brilliant capacities or results — which is absurd, for we all know that no man is perfect. Hence, when the faults of the mediocre come to light, they are immediately held in less esteem, for they have lost that which gave them value.
