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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

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