"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."
— Weakness

January 1, 1970

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) The Sage, the Weak, and the Magnificent, p. 94.