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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of read more
It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.
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.
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.
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
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That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
Must be an angel.
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,