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

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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
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
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 giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
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 things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
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
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
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Evil Excellence exchange Man Rich

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

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