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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.] 
 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.] 
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
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.
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.
 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.] 
 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.] 
 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. 
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.