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 Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those 
who denounce what they do themselves.)
 [Lat., read more 
 Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those 
who denounce what they do themselves.)
 [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?] 
 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.] 
 Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each 
person's back he has given one full of his read more 
 Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each 
person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front 
he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.
 [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.
  Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;
   Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.] 
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 abandon them
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
 You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
 Careless and careful hands like faults commit.  
 You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
 Careless and careful hands like faults commit. 
 They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault 
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to read more 
 They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault 
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. 
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.