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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Blame God Guard Rule Slave Vice Yourself
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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Break Escape Law Small Spider
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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Citizenship Ideal Injury State
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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Angry Injury Justice
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
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Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Evil Excellence exchange Man Rich

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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