Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame).
What is bad?-All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness?-The feeling that power is increasing-that resistance has been overcome.
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When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength, hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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