169．多加小心，避免万一失手胜过百发百中

多加小心，避免万一失手胜过百发百中。无人会看炽燃的太阳，可一旦日食，则万众瞩目。人们通常不注意你做对了什么，却会注意你做错了什么。好事不出门，坏事传千里。很多人在出事之前无人知晓。所有的功绩汇总也不足以掩盖一个小小的污点。当你知道那些恶意的眼睛在关注你的每一个错误，而对你的成就熟视无睹，你就应避免犯错。

169．Be more careful not to miss once than to hit a hundred times

Be more careful not to miss once than to hit a hundred times. No one looks at the blazing sun; all gaze when he is eclipsed. The common talk does not reckon what goes right but what goes wrong. Evil report carries farther than any applause. Many men are not known to the world till they have left it. All the exploits of a man taken together are not enough to wipe out a single small blemish. Avoid therefore falling into error, seeing that ill-will notices every error and no success.