There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
But the wallet of the person read more

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., read more

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]

Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
Must be an angel.
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, read more

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
failings he has the quickest eye for read more

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be
the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be
their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout
as a rival.