Rien ne rehausse l'autorité mieux que le silence, splendeur des forts et refuge des faibles.
in Le Fil de l'épée.
Writings
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
As quoted in Knute Rockne: Man Builder (1940) by Harry Augustus Stuhldreher, p. 53
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
“The splendor of Silence,—of snow-jeweled hills and of ice.”
Orion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc7CY1yV1g8C&pg=PA325, with NPR transcript https://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.transcript.html (9 November 2001)
2000s, 2002
國無常強，無常弱。奉法者強則國強，奉法者弱則國弱。
Source: "On Having Standards", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
