Any Quote by Lord Melbourne

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the…

— Leonard Peikoff

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

— Seneca the Younger

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

— Emily Dickinson

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions…

— Simone Weil

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however…

— Randy Alcorn

“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a…

— C.S. Lewis

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

— Democritus