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WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/74584/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from Cicero</a><blockquote>It is a good thing to recognize one’s own faults.   [Bellum est enim sua vitia nosse.]</blockquote>Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)] Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/74584/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=failings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#failings</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=faults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#faults</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfawareness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfcriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfcriticism</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vices</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a>

WIST Quotations has moved!A quotation from Peters, Ellis:« “God does indeed forbid,” said Radulfus dryly, “that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame.” »Full quote, sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/peters-ellis/3131/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://wist.info/peters-ellis/3131/</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotation</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/blame" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#blame</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/exaggeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#exaggeration</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/failings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#failings</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/hyperbole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hyperbole</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/praise" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#praise</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pride</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/selfaggrandizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#selfaggrandizing</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vice</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#virtue</a>

Colin from Edinburgh, OklahomaMost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americans</a> fixate on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> personalities, and don't think enough about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/failings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#failings</a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#system</a>. Calling it a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> is far too much of a stretch. Yes, yes - a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/representative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#representative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/republic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#republic</a>, but it isn't really that either. Read <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aristotle</a>.

WIST Quotations has moved!A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:« It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. »Full quote, sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/19198/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/19198/</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotation</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/brotherhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#brotherhood</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#commonality</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/failings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#failings</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/faults" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#faults</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/flaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#flaws</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humancondition</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humannature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sympathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#sympathy</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/unity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#unity</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/imperfections" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#imperfections</a>

WIST Quotations has moved!A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:««««« Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each otherʼs little failings. [L’on ne peut aller loin dans l’amitié, si l’on n’est pas disposé à se pardonner les uns aux autres les petits défauts.] »»»»»Full quote, sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/58868/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/58868/</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quote</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotes</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quotation</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/acceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#acceptance</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/failings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#failings</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/faults" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#faults</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#forgiveness</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#friendship</a>

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