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First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics.

— Bertolt Brecht

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bertolt Brecht

About Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), commonly known as Bertolt Brecht, was a German Marxist dramatist, stage director and poet. He is remembered for the Distancing effect practice in performing arts (known in German as Verfremdungseffekt or V-Effekt).