#frailty

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

When I grow up next year my life will be easy." Vanity ↗

— Caroline Gerardo

#frailty #women #beauty

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#god #greatness #man #security #true

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#frailty #old-age #time #age

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back. ↗

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

#frailty #gabriel-d-allier #girls #life #mankind

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— John Dryden

#love #mind #noblest

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires... ↗

— John Geddes

#frailty #weights #wires #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational

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

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#country #detriment #else #everyone #few