You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
Our foibles are really what make us lovable.
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.