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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
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
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Engagement Man Myself Party Relationship
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
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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Angry Injury Justice
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
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
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Blame God Guard Rule Slave Vice Yourself
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
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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