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Critique of Proverbs and Conventional Wisdom
How The Path to Rome develops Critique of Proverbs and Conventional Wisdom.
The author attacks the 'Proverb-Maker' as a wicked, pusillanimous figure who spreads false half-truths, using this critique to challenge conventional wisdom and encourage a more skeptical, individualistic approach to life and action.
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- The Path to Rome
The narrator critiques the proverb about dew on a just man, noting that in the cold evening, they would have done better to warm the righteous.