Quote #1
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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- I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
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- Variant:In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
- Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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- Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.