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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. - Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Weaklings must lie. – Jean Paul Richter

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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. – George Bidault

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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