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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Union is strength.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom” - 1913

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.” Henry Kissinger, “Diplomacy” - 1994

“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“I may not be as strong as I think . . . But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Past tears are present strength” George MacDonald, “Phantastes” - 1858

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil” - 1886

“a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” - 1840

“the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” Rudyard Kipling, “The Second Jungle Book” - 1895

“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; but vows to every purpose must not hold.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Let us then declare that King Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul...” Winston Churchill, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” - 1956

“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“When the flight attendant asked me to put it on, I told her that Superman didn't need a seat belt.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerized the...” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

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