“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
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Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist
Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 52
“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
“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 test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.”
Jerome Frank (1889–1957) American jurist
United States ex rel. Caminito v. Murphy, 222 F.2d 698, 706 (1955).