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It is failings that show human nature, and merits that distinguish the individual; faults and misfortunes we all have in common; virtues belong to each one separately.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
Author Francois de La Rochefoucauld reminds us that we often justify our mistakes rather than addressing them:
"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."
"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."
3-2-1: How to deal with stress, forging your own reality, and learning vs. achieving
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”
The fool has more hope of wisdom than the man who calls himself wise. Proverbs 26