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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; - that laws were like cobwebs, -for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off
Diogenes
Actions
Speech
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them
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I still have my lantern.
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