List of points

Avoid that ridiculous adulation which, perhaps unconsciously, you pay to the person in charge, so that you automatically echo his tastes or opinions on points of no consequence.

—At the same time, you must be much more careful not to keep on showing up his defects as if they were amusing details, or to become too familiar detracting from his authority. Take care too not to render the sad service of letting the bad practice grow of turning something bad into a bit of a joke.

It is indiscreet, childish and silly to say nice things about others and praise their good qualities in front of them.

—In this way vanity is encouraged, with the risk of stealing glory from God, to whom everything is due.