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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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