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| A man should pardon everybody’s fault rather than his own. Cato. | 1 |
| A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. | 2 |
| Bad men excuse their faults; good men leave them. Ben Jonson. | 3 |
| Be not busy in detecting other men’s faults. Sri Lankan. | 4 |
| By others’ faults wise men correct their own. | 5 |
| Condemn the fault and not the actor of it. Shakespeare. | 6 |
| Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand. French. | 7 |
| Every man hath his faults. Latin. | 8 |
| Every one’s faults are not written on their foreheads. | 9 |
| Every one puts his faults on the times. | 10 |
| Faults are thick when love is thin. | 11 |
| Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so. | 12 |
| Faults that are rich are fair. Shakespeare. | 13 |
| Forget others’ faults by remembering your own. | 14 |
| Great faults may grow out of great virtues in excess. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 15 |
| He has but sorry food that feeds upon the faults of others. | 16 |
| He is lifeless that is faultless. | 17 |
| He may find fault, but let him mend if he can. | 18 |
He that does one fault at first
And lies to hide it, makes it two. Watts. | 19 |
| If nobody takes notice of our faults we easily forget them ourselves. | 20 |
| If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. Gaelic. | 21 |
| In every fault there is folly. | 22 |
| It is well our faults are not written on our face. | 23 |
| Jupiter makes for our own faults a sack behind and for the faults of others, one we wear before. Homer. | 24 |
| Let him that is without fault cast the first stone. | 25 |
| Men’s years and their faults are always more than they are willing to own. | 26 |
| No man is born without faults; he is the best who has the fewest. Horace. | 27 |
| No one sees his own faults. German. | 28 |
| Nobody is willing to acknowledge he is in fault. | 29 |
| One fault will not justify another. | 30 |
| One man’s fault is another man’s lesson. | 31 |
| Small faults indulged are great thieves that let in greater. | 32 |
| Some faults though small, intolerable grow. Juvenal. | 33 |
| The fault is as great as he that commits it. French, Spanish. | 34 |
| The fault of another is a good teacher. German. | 35 |
| The fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack-saddle. | 36 |
| The faulty stands always on his guard. | 37 |
| The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. | 38 |
| The man the least pardonable is the one who declines to correct his faults, unless it be he who prides himself on them. | 39 |
| The most faulty are most prone to find fault. | 40 |
| The way to avoid great faults is to beware of small ones. | 41 |
| There’s none without a fault. | 42 |
| They who seek only for faults, see nothing else. | 43 |
| ’Tis easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. | 44 |
| We know not what is in the wallet behind. (The wallet containing our own faults.) | 45 |
| Where no fault is there needs no pardon. | 46 |
| Wilful faults have no excuse and deserve no pardon. | 47 |
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