WEAKNESS QUOTES VI

quotations about weakness

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

CANON WESTCOTT

The Christian Register, April 17, 1913


Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

OVID

The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

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Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.

G. C. EDMONDSON

Blessed Are the Meek