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Say nothing but good of the dead.

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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
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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exchange Man Ourselves Poor Rich Virtue
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
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
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
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
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

Say nothing but good of the dead.

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