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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
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
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
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
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
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 giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
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
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself

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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