Quotes of Weakness - somelinesforyou

“ And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, but Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ 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

“ 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

“ But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. ”

- Anatole France

“ Anything cracked will shatter at a touch. ”

- Ovid

“ Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. ”

- Knute Rockne

“ Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ 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

“ All cruelty springs from weakness. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ 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

“ Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today. ”

- Stan Lee

“ I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. ”

- H. W. Shaw

“ Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ”

- Francois Mauriac

“ We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. ”

- Jean Francois De La Harpe

“ Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. ”

- Rollo May

“ 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

“ Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ 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
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