It's easier to protect them, but their strength wanes.
[It is better to keep (i.e. a promise) than to attack, but if you keep taking it easy, your power will decline.
The protector fear that he lose.
I hope they don't attack us.
The weak fear to defeat.
Avoiding offense.
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