“It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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Mark Ames (1965) American writer and journalist
Part VI: Welcome to the Dollhouse, page 239.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)
Context: Cruel and callous when on top, afraid and smiling all the way to the grave when not- that pretty much sums up the post-Reagan zeitgeist. And if you're not just as cheerful as the rest, "you've got some personal problems." You're a weirdo if you complain. It's your own fault if you're traumatized by a massacre. It's your own fault if you're poor. It's your own fault if you get downsized, overworked, bullied, and fail. Get over it.
A. M. Homes (1961) novelist and memoirst from the United States
Source: This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), P. 325.
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Fabricáronles a muchos su grandeza sus malévolos. Más fiera es la lisonja que el odio, pues remedia éste eficazmente las tachas que aquélla disimula.
Maxim 84 (p. 47)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“View all conflicts as your own fault first.”
Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer
Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume III: Solace for the Heart in Difficult Times (Hari-Nama Press, 2000)
“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.
Maxim 442.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
" On the Pleasure of Hating http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Hating.htm" (c. 1826) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)
