Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
One who sees the weakness of his strength can also leverage the strength of his weakness, readily, to his advantage.
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, *you are* shit, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*. Shelley Levene: The leads a...
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.
If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.
There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.
If you are born weak, it's not your mistake. If you die weak, it's your mistake.
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
