Companion Quote by Sir Fulke Greville

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or…

— Diogenes

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal…

— Helen Rowland

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

— Henry Miller

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has…

— Joseph Addison

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which…

— Lord Melbourne

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

— ElRay L. Christiansen

“A human relationship is not based on differentiation and perfection, for these only emphasize the differences or call forth the exact opposite; it is…

— Carl Jung

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless…

— Samuel Johnson

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

“The kind of perfection that Jesus says comes from his Father—and the kind he calls his disciples to pursue—does not find its sense of…

— David Mathis