Angels are winged with God’s power.
SOLONSociety is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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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.
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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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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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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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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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