"Some of our weaknesses are born in..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.”

“Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”

“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.”

“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.”

“Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.”

“The sign of death is weakness.”

“I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.”

“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”