I feel like there is some fancy philosophical way of describing

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>Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good time.
Whatever the expression it has nothing to do with modern Europe, that's for sure.

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It's a meme related to cyclical history.

>>1890914
It's "oversimplification"

>>1890914
Dialectic

>>1890914
Some quote by a Persian.
>Cyrus heard them, and found nothing to marvel at in their design; “Go ahead and do this,” he said; “but if you do so, be prepared no longer to be rulers but rather subjects. Soft lands breed soft men; wondrous fruits of the earth and valiant warriors grow not from the same soil.”

So says Russia, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa

good credible places that prove this to be true

>>1890933
This. The world isn't so easily summarized by little aphoristic tidbits dividing people into vague categories of weak and strong.

"True Pleasures are those which cause good in the long-term, while false pleasures are those which appear good at first glance but makes one decadent if they only seek false pleasures. Decadence brings long-term instability and slavery."

-t. something I imagine Plato would say