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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
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
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
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
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try

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