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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
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
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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Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
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
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale

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