I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas read more

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus read more

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:
Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.

Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.