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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
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
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
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
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom

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