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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
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
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
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
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
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
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
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
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

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