“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

“Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

“In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

“Leave the stronger
and the lesser
things to me!
Lest that conger
named Vanessa
who is longer
than a dresser
visits thee.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

“2308. He that spares the Bad, injures the Good.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet