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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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Break Escape Law Small Spider
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
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
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
A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Defend Lying Partial Truth Worst
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself

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