François de La Rochefoucauld - Faults Quotes

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Only great men have great faults.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Though sincerity and confidence have many points of resemblance, they have yet many points of difference. Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them.

François de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

François de La Rochefoucauld
We confess small faults in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.

François de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Some people's faults are becoming to them; others are disgraced by their own good traits.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

François de La Rochefoucauld
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.

François de La Rochefoucauld
The defects and faults in 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.

François de La Rochefoucauld
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

François de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

François de La Rochefoucauld
We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.

François de La Rochefoucauld