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“He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]”
Gabriel Meurier (Meurir or Murier) Quotes Source: Tresor des Sentences
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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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“He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]”
Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) Quotes Source: Epistles (bk. IX, 26)
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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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