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“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.”

Men Humans Heaven Born Perfect Wise Errors Faults Affair Connected Worldly Perfect Happiness

Author:Gerald of Wales

“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Mistake Kindness Weakness Faults This Life Decent One Mistake Kindness For Weakness

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.”

Humans Law Choices Force Break Effects Crime Faults Excuse Refuge Break Through Frailty Human Frailties

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human”

Knows Men Humans Faults Err Is Human

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?”

Humans Hard Artist Human Beings Faults Albums Being An Artist

Author:Kate Bush

“Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.”

Ifs Mind Humans Minutes Faults Vain Intimate Human Mind Introducing

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

“Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.”

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan