#frailty

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Samuel Butler

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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

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