What is evil? – Whatever springs from weakness.[Was ist schlecht? – Alles, was aus der Schwäche stammt.]
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.[Sottise des deux parts est, comme on sait , la devise de toutes les querelles.]
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.[Eine Schwäche des Verhaltens wird eine Schwäche des Charakters.]
Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.
Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain. They use it as fuel.
We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.[L’on fait plus souvent des trahisons par faiblesse que par un dessein formé de trahir.]
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.
