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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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