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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad

Cynic a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as...

Cynic a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about vision, things

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about marriage, woman

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the...

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about education, merit

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but...

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about opinion, failure

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is...

Quote by Gabriela Mistral about children, being, error, blood, name, crime, criminals, need, rightness, things

Hypocrisy is not just a fault, as the moralist writers think, but also a way to conserve your energy and avoid embarrassing situations. Madam Voltaire, 1979

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about hypocrisy, writers

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the...

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Quote by Publius Terentius Afer about suspicion, time

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