Weakness

(238 votes)   The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Bette Davis
1908-1989, American Actress, Producer

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(234 votes)   Weaklings must lie.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(201 votes)   The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(117 votes)   Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(113 votes)   There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(108 votes)   She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(107 votes)   And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. [2 Corinthians 12:9]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(107 votes)   Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(107 votes)   We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(102 votes)   All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(91 votes)   Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(87 votes)   The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.

G. Emmons

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(86 votes)   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

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(82 votes)   It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(79 votes)   Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Cardinal De Rets

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