Confession
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine (354-430) Theologian.
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Montaigne (1533-1592) French philosopher and essayist.
Publicidad
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss political philosopher and essayist.
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss political philosopher and essayist.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus (1st Centry BC-?) Roman writer and poet.
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