323. There are six things that foster love and respect, helpfulness and agreement, harmony and unity. What six? When one acts, speaks and thinks with love towards one’s companions in the holy life, both in public and in private; when one freely shares with them whatever one has acquired justly, even if it be no more than the food from one’s alms bowl; when one possesses together with them virtues that are complete, unbroken and freedom-giving, praised by the wise and conducive to concentration; and when one possesses with one’s companions in the holy life, both in public and in private, the understanding that is noble, leading to freedom and which conduces to the complete destruction of suffering; then will there be love and respect, helpfulness and agreement, harmony and unity.
M.I,322 (MN 48)
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[1989 edition]
Both now and in the past
It has always been thus, O Atula!
They blame those who are silent,
They blame those who speak much,
And they blame those who speak in moderation.
There is no one who is not blamed.
There never was,
There never will be,
Nor is there now
A person who is wholly blamed or praised.
Dhp.227-228