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Frail Quotes by Sallust
- The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
More Frail Quotes
- The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto di Bondone
- Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P.G. Wodehouse
- Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life… — Aristophanes
- Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey
- Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare
- Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to… — Paul of the Cross
- It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence
- Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey