"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
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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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"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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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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