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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.

Solon

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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
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
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
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
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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Break Escape Law Small Spider
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
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
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 things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess

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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