“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”

— Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.

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American science fiction novelist 1951

David Gemmell book Legend

Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7

“I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

Jeffrey Archer (1940) English author and former politician

“There is only one man who gets his own way—he who can get it single-handed; therefore freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. This is my fundamental maxim. Apply it to childhood, and all the rules of education spring from it. Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs. This is why his desires increase in proportion to his weakness; and this is why the child is weaker than the man. If a man is strong and a child is weak it is not because the strength of the one is absolutely greater than the strength of the other, but because the one can naturally provide for himself and the other cannot. Thus the man will have more desires and the child more caprices, a word which means, I take it, desires which are not true needs, desires which can only be satisfied with the help of others.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Emile, or On Education

Emile, or On Education (1762), Book II

“Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

El hombre es débil y cuando ejerce la profesíon de fuerte es más débil.
Voces (1943)

“With carefully nourished resentment, a man can go through his life blaming someone or something else for his failures. This enables him to be a failure and to feel morally superior to the world at the same time.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Source: "Private Clubs and the Sour Pleasures of Resentment" https://www.theepochtimes.com/private-clubs-and-the-sour-pleasures-of-resentment_3956322.html, The Epoch Times (August 19, 2021).

“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 241
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Source: The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

Charles Lamb book Essays of Elia

Witches, and Other Night Fears.
Essays of Elia (1823)

“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”

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