Do not throw anyone's fault in his face;
make your ear a door that welcomes his words.
Kimsenün 'aybını urma yüzine
Gûşuñı bâb-ı kabûl it sözine
Nabi, Hayriyye, couplet 627 (1701).
Nabi writes this couplet to his son.
Another's fault is easy to see.
Easy to say, too.
And having said it, one even thinks oneself in the right.
The couplet gives another task.
Be silent.
Listen.
Knowing a fault is one kind of knowledge.
Not throwing it in someone's face is another.
The second is learned later.
Most often
when someone does the same to us.