A Quote by Publilius Syrus

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

Mario Puzo

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Benjamin Franklin

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

Thomas Campion

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

Theresa Rebeck

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Francois Fenelon

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

Khalil Gibran

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Madeleine L'Engle

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Charles M. Schulz

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

Gautama Buddha

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

Connie Nielsen

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's 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.