Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Vol. I, Part III, Ch. 2 General Aspects of the Special-Creation-Hypothesis
Principles of Biology (1864)
“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.”
Source: The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress
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pg 71
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“If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
History and Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=7I82AAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;If+the+state+is+strong+it+crushes+us+If+it+is+weak+we+perish&quot; as translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews (1971)
