Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
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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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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