“Recognizing our frailties without fearing them is the first step in turning them into strengths and preventing others from using them against us.”

Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Context: The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e. g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Original: Non mostrate mai le vostre fragilità a chi potrebbe usarle per farvi del male.
Source: prevale.net

Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

"Haunted by Halloween", in the New York Times (31 October 1990).
Context: Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 131

Source: Moloka'i

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