"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
-Aesop
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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
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"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
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"Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
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"Example is the best precept."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
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