weakness Quotes

“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“I know you. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“But habit is a great deadener.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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