I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Profession
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Protection
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Profession
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Complication Oneself Removal
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Oneself
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.

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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Scent Shower
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.

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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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