"We acknowledge our faults in order to..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.
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“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”
“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
“Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.”
More on Faults
“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
“Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.”
More on Sincerity
“I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.”
“We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.”
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”