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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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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Catch Law Oneself Poor Spider Trap Weakness
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
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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Action Punishment Wrong
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
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
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
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People

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