A Quote by Joseph Joubert

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
French - Writer
May 7, 1754 - May 4, 1824

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Philip Neri

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

Thomas Paine

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Isaac D'Israeli

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Henry David Thoreau

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Thomas Mann

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Jacques Maritain

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

Josemaria Escriva

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Owen Feltham

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

John Lancaster Spalding

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Francois Fenelon

At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

Harun Yahya

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Herbert Spencer

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

We all have the defects of our qualities.

Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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