“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
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