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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste

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