All savageness is a sign of weakness.
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est.
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De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 3, line 4 | As quoted in Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1864), Harper & brothers, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment).
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All cruelty springs from weakness. (translator unknown)