Comment pretendons-nous qu'un autre puisse garder notre secret, si nous ne pouvons le garder nous-memes?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- You cannot expect others to keep your secrets if you cannot keep your own.
- In plain terms
- You can't ask others to guard your secrets if you cannot guard your own.
- What can you take from it?
- Keep your own secrets before asking others to keep yours.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you handle information shared in confidence?
- Do you trust yourself with sensitive information?
Another view
Some secrets are shared to test loyalty rather than for secrecy.
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