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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

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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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Catch Law Oneself Poor Spider Trap Weakness
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
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
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
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
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
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
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
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

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