“ Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, but Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
“ You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
“ This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues — they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him, which would have passed without observation in another. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
“ People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
“ Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
“ The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. ”
- Jean Lush- Copy
“ Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
“ Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
“ Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
“ Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
“ Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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