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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

— Publilius Syrus

Two sculpted hands on linen: one pale and empty, the other darkened and filled with gold coins.
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The saying contrasts clean hands with full hands as the basis of divine judgment. Read figuratively, cleanliness suggests integrity while fullness suggests possessions. The contrast places how a person acts above how much they hold, giving moral conduct priority over visible abundance.

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