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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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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
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Blame God Guard Rule Slave Vice Yourself
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Call Death Happiness Himself
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
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
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
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
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
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
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
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
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

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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