Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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