Quotes About Enfeeble

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates (p.9).

The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.