No man is weak by choice.
What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.
Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named; they are really only the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
What man is without fault, and what king without weakness?
Reason and freedom are incompatible with weakness.
Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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.
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