"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

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