"Great men should not have great faults...." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.”

“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.”

“I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.”

“Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.”

“To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.”

“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

“Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.”