"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them."

By: vivian on sábado, maio 18, 2019

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”

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Tiberius, Roman Emperor (14 CE to 37 CE).

It was rephrased by the Sicilian mafia in the 1800s as “You have to skim the cream off the milk without breaking the bottle” – the mafia took what they needed, without harming their source of income.

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