“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
"How to Love God" (12 September 1954) http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/lovegod.html <!-- Also in The Path of Love (1986) --> <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: When a person tells others “Be good”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. When he says “Be brave, honest and pure”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that the speaker himself is all that, while they are cowards, dishonest and unclean.<br>To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.<br>If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman] (1901). Pt 8, Ch. 2
“We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous n'avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n'en avons pas de grands.
Maxim 327.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)