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The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.