Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy [resources] she wins the greater [meed] of hope. Democritus
For love unlovely, when its evil spell 'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools, Conjugial bands o'errules. Aeschylus
Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. Homer