One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his. Samuel Laman Blanchard
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force. William Wilberforce
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage Ye who enter here leave all hope behind. Emma Goldman