The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Both classically and romantically-minded spirits - in as much as these two species always exist - occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.
I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame).
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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