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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
 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.] 
 Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from 
their own faults.]
 [Lat., Ea molestissime read more 
 Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from 
their own faults.]
 [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa 
ferenda sunt.] 
 That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! 
But the wallet of the person read more 
 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.] 
 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. 
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
 Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.  
 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
 Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. 
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
  But, read more 
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
  But, being moody, give him time and scope,
   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
    Confound themselves with working. 
 Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those 
who denounce what they do themselves.)
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 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?]