#faults

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. ↗

— Matthew Prior

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. ↗

— Quintilian

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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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