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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLON

Commend Friendship Public
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
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Government Law Obedience People Society
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break

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