Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain. They use it as fuel.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition!
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that makes the gold of the image precious.
One of the weaknesses of human nature is curiosity to learn things which it would not like to know.[La foiblesse humaine est d’avoir Des curiosités d’apprendre Ce qu’on ne voudroit pas sçavoir.]
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
