The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbours. Socrates.
The envious will die, but envy never. Molière.
The errors of a great mind are more edifying 25 than the truths of a little. Börne.
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. For the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he have not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. Carlyle.
The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool. Wm. Blake.
The errors of woman spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true. Balzac.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Bacon.
The essence of a lie is in deception, not in 30 words. Ruskin.
The essence of affectation is that it be assumed; the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the unhappy man persuades himself he has become a new creature of wonderful symmetry, though every movement betrays not symmetry, but dislocation. Carlyle.
The essence of all government among good men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the production and recognition of human worth, and in the detection and extinction of human unworthiness. Ruskin.