#faults

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. ↗

— Plutarch

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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. ↗

— Theocritus

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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