The strong man is strongest when alone.

 

The strong man is strongest when alone.
--
Tell, Act I, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin

 

Friedrich von Schiller

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First principle: one must need to be strong — otherwise one will never become strong. — Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers ...

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

One of the marvelous things about him is that he is strong enough to force the men who dislike him the most to stand by him. By far he is the strongest man before the people to-day except Roosevelt. I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it.

 

William Howard Taft

 

The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

If you rely on strength, when you hit the enemy's sword you will inevitably hit too hard. If you do this, your own sword will be carried along as a result. Thus the saying, "The strongest hand wins", has no meaning.
In large-scale strategy, if you have a strong army and are relying on strength to win, but the enemy also has a strong army, the battle will be fierce. This is the same for both sides.
Without the correct principle the fight cannot be won.
The spirit of my school is to win through the wisdom of strategy, paying no attention to trifles. Study this well.

 

Miyamoto Musashi