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