"That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own." - so true; includes talking and spreading rumours about scandals as well.
"...when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason." - but love can be blind, in a negative way as well, leading to more heartache only.
"It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love." - now u see why i said in my other post that the perfect would wish not to be so perfect after all.