From the Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

At the time when there was a council concerning the promotion of a certain man, the council members were at the point of deciding the promotion was useless because of the fact that the man had previously been involved in a drunken brawl. But someone said, "If we were to cast aside every man who had made a mistake once, useful men could probably not come by. A man who makes a mistake once will be considerably more prudent and useful becaus of his repentance. I feel that he shlould be promoted."
Someone else then asked, "Will you guarantee him?"
The man replied, "Of course I will."
The others asked, "By what will you guarantee him?"
And he replied, "I can guarantee him by the fact that he has erred once. A man who has never erred once is dangerous." This said, the man was promoted.
--Translated by William Scott Wilson


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