Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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