Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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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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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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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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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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