"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."
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
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"Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old."
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"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
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"Weak people cannot be sincere."
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"It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken."
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"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."
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"Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness."
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"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."
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"The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice."
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"Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions."
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"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
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"Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."
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"Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power."
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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."
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"What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness"
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"At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them."
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"Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?"
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"No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness."
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"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
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