How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
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In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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