We try to make a virtue of vices we are loth to correct.

You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws.

If we had no faults we should not find so much enjoyment in seeing faults in others

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

We pride ourselves on the opposite faults to those we have; when we are weak we boast of being unyielding

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Our pride often grows fat on what we cut from our other faults

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

We are quick to criticize the faults of others, but slow to use those faults to correct our own

Nos vertus ne sont le plus souvent, que des vices déguisés.