It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.
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On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13George Henry Lewes
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All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For a work to become immortal it must possess so many excellences that it will not be easy to find a man who understands and values them all; so that there will be in all ages men who recognise and appreciate some of these excellences; by this means the credit of the work will be retained throughout the long course of centuries and ever-changing interests, for, as it is appreciated first in this sense, then in that, the interest is never exhausted.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Self-love.—The nature of self-love and of this human Ego is to love self only and consider self only. But what will man do? He cannot prevent this object that he loves from being full of faults and wants. He wants to be great, and he sees himself small. He wants to be happy, and he sees himself miserable. He wants to be perfect, and he sees himself full of imperfections. He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men, and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt. This embarrassment in which he finds himself produces in him the most unrighteous and criminal passion that can be imagined; for he conceives a mortal enmity against that truth which reproves him, and which convinces him of his faults. He would annihilate it, but, unable to destroy it in its essence, he destroys it as far as possible in his own knowledge and in that of others; that is to say, he devotes all his attention to hiding his faults both from others and from himself, and he cannot endure either that others should point them out to him, or that they should see them. 100
Blaise Pascal
One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and covers up your faults is your enemy.
Husayn ibn Ali
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac Kook
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