Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 578.
“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good
quote of Jawlensky, 1912; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 118
1900 - 1935
“For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all.”
De Cive "Of the right of him, whether Counsell, or one Man onely, who hath the supreme power in the City" (1642) Ch. 6
“He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 531.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of others' strength and greatness. He is proud of his great generals but not proud of himself. He admires thought which he did not have and not the thought he did have. He believes in things all the more thoroughly the less he comprehends them, and does not believe in the correctness of those ideas which he comprehends most easily.
“Such strength hath Custome in each tender Soul.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
Mary Magdalen: His Mouth Was Like the Heart of a Pomegranate
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
