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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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