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Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Solon

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
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
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
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
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
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Advantage Agreement Evidence Frame Interest Man Myself Observation Party
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk

Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

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