quotations about weakness
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
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
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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