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

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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
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
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
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Evil Excellence exchange Man Rich
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
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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Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Best Fortunate Happiness Himself Man
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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Home Man Misery Oneself Place Togetherness
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
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
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

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