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I grow old, ever learning many things.

Solon

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
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
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
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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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Home Man Misery Oneself Place Togetherness
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
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
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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exchange Man Ourselves Poor Rich Virtue
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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

I grow old, ever learning many things.

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