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“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”

Ifs Mean Inspiration Lying Path Clear Concerned Faults Following Aids Conformity Instruction Compelling Heed Explicit

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.”

Trying Political Lying Individual Politician Gains Blame Faults Greedy

Author:Pat Paulsen

“The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.”

Ifs Men Giving Doe Lying Sin Crime Example Draws Faults

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”

Ifs Lying Understanding Voice Attention Class Failing Listening Members Faults Secure Speakers Enlightening

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.”

Men May Doe Stills Real Philosophy Lying He Man Cold Faults Former Aliens Latter Assured

Book:The Logic of Hegel

Source: The Logic of Hegel

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”

Want Hands Lying Accepting Creatures Kissing Faults Lips Strikes Caress

Author:George Sand

“Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.”

People Thinking Lying Powerful Faults Magnet

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.”

Wells Self Lying Courses Stars Moral Sun Return Moon Seasons Difficulty Faults Self Knowledge Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.”

Should Self Lying Goal Virtue Capable Philosophical Faults Males Latter Forgetfulness Interacting Absorption Self Absorption Interacting With Others Self Forgetfulness

Author:Valerie Solanas

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Men Faces Used Lying Failing Honesty Faults Revolutionary Traitor Treachery

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.”

Men Lying Quality Talent Succeed Shining Faults

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.”

Said Lying Lays Faults Yesterday Upset Fifth Congressman Kenneth Good Lies Testifying

Author:Jay Leno