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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Call Death Happiness Himself
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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
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
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Engagement Man Myself Party Relationship
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
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

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