Pero cuando se nos pide una opinión, no hacemos ningún favor a nuestros amigos fingiendo no apreciar defectos en su trabajo, en especial cuando quienes no son sus amigos están obligados a reparar en esos mismos defectos.

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends.

Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

31. — If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Friends as a rule are a mistake.

Had we no faults, we should not take such pleasure in discovering them in others.

I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues — does not this seem pretty close to folly?

When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe them pity.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.