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"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."
By Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
By Aesop, The Dog in the Manger
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"Put your shoulder to the wheel."
By Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner
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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
By Hippocrates, Regimen
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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
By Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."
By Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
By Titus Maccius Plautus, Rudens
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"Practice yourself what you preach."
By Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
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"Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many."
By Publilius Syrus
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
By Publilius Syrus
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
By Plutarch, Lives
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"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
By Brendan Francis
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
By Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
By Mao Tse-Tung
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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
By W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915
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"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."
By Lady Duff-Gordon
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"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."
By Epictetus
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"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."
By Chilo
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"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
By William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7
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"Paranoia means having all the facts."
By William S. Burroughs
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