Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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