defects quotes

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.