Like all my family and class I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness it's a strength.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases and then commences the state of war.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons or whether one wants to overturn them.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of public opinion.

Land and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.