“Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.”

“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”

“Of course the strong are strong and the weak weak.”

“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

“No state is forever strong or forever weak. If those who uphold the law are strong, the state will be strong; if they are weak, the state will be weak.”

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

“The weak are wicked. Goodness can only be expected from the strong.”

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

“If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.”

“The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.”