Holding on to the weak is called strength.
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Human beings are weak.
Seven days without love makes one weak.
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Women are weak, but mothers are strong.
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.