Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 49
“The weak are wicked. Goodness can only be expected from the strong.”
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“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
Variant: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”
Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction
I Corinthians 9:22 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians
Context: Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 15
