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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
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?]
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
failings he has the quickest eye for read more
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be
the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be
their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout
as a rival.
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.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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
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.]
