A Quote by Sun Tzu
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.
If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.
When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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