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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, read more
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
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.]
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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.
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.]
He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci
suorum.]