“A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness …”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
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