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

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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
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Citizenship Heart Mindset Oneself Secret Separate
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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
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
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Best Fortunate Happiness Himself Man
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Defend Lying Partial Truth Worst

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

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