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Sagt av |
| Dölj en brist, och världen föreställer sig det värsta. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Ett fel icke erkänt är därmed dubbelt erkänt. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Inget skulle bli gjort om alla väntade tills någon kunde göra det så bra att ingen hittade något fel med det. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| När du har brister, var inte rädd att överge dem. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. | Charles A. Cerami |
| The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep | Chinese Proverbs |
| Pride is the mask we make of our faults | Hebrew Proverb |
| If you want people to notice your faults, start giving advice | Kelly Stephens |
| Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Blame it on a simple twist of fate. | Bob Dylan (1941-) |
| The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |