#frailty

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humanity #humility #leadership #power #leadership

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#love #love

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#character #falliability #flaws #frailty #humanity

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #creation #frailty #god #his

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

#each #error #first #first law #folly

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#each #fallibility #frailty #humanity #instinctively

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much

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

— Samuel Butler

#frailty #history #opinion #public #public opinion