Zakir Naik (1965) Islamic televangelist
In SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOC6iZNwvqc
“Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.”
— Dodie Smith, book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
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“May you live happy, you whose Woes are done.
Stern Fates, to Fates more cruel, us constrain.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Baby, you got to be cruel, you got to be cruel to be kind.”
Nick Lowe (1949) British singer
"Cruel to Be Kind" on the single Little Hitler / Cruel to Be Kind (1978) (Top of the Pops 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ7oGHwMTI <br class="br">Context: I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down<br>Again and again and when I ask you to explain<br>You say, you've got to be...<br>Cruel to be kind in the right measure<br>Cruel to be kind it's a very good sign<br>Cruel to be kind means that I love you<br>Baby, you got to be cruel, you got to be cruel to be kind.
“Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Amour est un étrange maître!
Heureux qui peut ne le connaître
Que par récit, lui ni ses coups!
Book IV (1668), fable 1 (Le lion amoureux).
Fables (1668–1679)
“fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Sun Tzu book The Art of War
(zh-TW) 微乎微乎，至於無形；神乎神乎，至於無聲；故能為敵之司命。
Alternative translation: Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
Alternative translation: O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
The Art of War, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths
“In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale