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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

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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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Advantage Agreement Evidence Frame Interest Man Myself Observation Party
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Chastity Desire Grace Ourselves Peace Purity Soul
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
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
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
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
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True

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