Men like us are good and proud and strong… if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses…
Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.
Every generation had its weaklings – that that was one of the penalties of greatness – but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.
Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness and every weakness a strength.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Do you really think that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
