Faults Quotes

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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good. — Muhammad Ali
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. — Horace
Only the great can afford to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own… — Henry Ward Beecher
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts… — Moliere
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. — Luc de Clapiers
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. — Luc de Clapiers
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the… — Beverly Engel
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! — William Shakespeare
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is… — Mark Twain

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