“When one is infatuated, faults are endearing that in others would be heinous.”
God Knows (1984)
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Le goût de la liberté, la mode et le culte du bonheur du plus grand nombre, dont le XIXe siècle s'est entiché, n'étaient à ses yeux qu'une hérésie qui passera comme les autres.
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 7
“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48 (p. 647)
Hussain Ahmad Madani, Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.76 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi
“It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.”
No. 66
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.”
Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté.
Maxim 496.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“For all other crimes we give asylum, for the most heinous crime in the universe we give no asylum.”
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 7
Context: "For one crime there is no asylum even in the Club," whispered Horace the Snake, who had sharp ears for whispering. "For all other crimes we give asylum, for the most heinous crime in the universe we give no asylum."
"What is the most heinous crime in the universe?" Roadstrum asked.
"Killing a songbird."
“The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
Voces (1943)