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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.]
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Satires (IV, 24)
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Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each
person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front
he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.
[Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.
Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;
Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Quotes , Source: Fables (bk. IV, 9, 1)
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Truculentus (I, 2, 58)
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The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 14)
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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Orlando at III, ii)
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They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
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Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
But, being moody, give him time and scope,
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
Confound themselves with working.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Clarence at IV, iv)
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