Weakness

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

-- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627 - 1704), French bishop, theologian, and court preacher. Bossuet was one of the first to advocate the theory of political absolutism; he made the argument that government was divine and that kings received their power from God, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)