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Better to have a reputation for caution than for cunning. Honesty is pleasing to everyone, even if not everyone is familiar with it. Be simple but not naive, shrewd but not cunning. Better to have been regarded as a rational person, than to have been feared as a pretender.

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Better to have a reputation for caution than for cunning. Honesty is pleasing to everyone, even if not everyone is familiar with it. Be simple but not naive, shrewd but not cunning. Better to have been regarded as a rational person, than to have been feared as a pretender.

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Romanian

"Mai bine să ai reputația de prudent decât de viclean. Sinceritatea e plăcută tuturor, chiar dacă nu toți sunt familiarizați cu ea. Fii simplu, dar nu naiv, perspicace, dar nu viclean. Mai bine să fi socotit drept o persoană rațională, decât să fi temut drept prefăcut."

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