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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
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
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk 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
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Best Fortunate Happiness Himself Man
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
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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