“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48 (p. 647)
“Some people's faults are becoming to them; others are disgraced by their own good traits.”
Il y a des personnes à qui les défauts siéent bien, et d'autres qui sont disgraciées avec leurs bonnes qualités.
Maxim 251.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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Hussain Ahmed Madani (1879–1957) 19th century Islamic scholar of India
Hussain Ahmad Madani, Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.76 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Rumi Daylight (1990)
Robert Nozick (1938–2002) American political philosopher
Source: (1974), Ch. 3 : Moral Constraints and the State; Why Side Constraints?, p. 32
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
As quoted in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999) by Mike Marqusee<!-- p. 213 -->; also quoted in the International Socialist Review Issue 33 (January–February 2004) http://www.isreview.org/issues/33/muhammadali.shtml <br class="br">Context: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 7, The Psychological View
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 183.