We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
