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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
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
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Engagement Man Myself Party Relationship
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
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
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
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
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
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

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