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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are."
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."
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