An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
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The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
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Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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