What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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Recorded Charlie Munger said elsewhere, not written here
Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.

USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗

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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, Speakola, 2007 source ↗

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