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I grow old learning something new every day.

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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
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
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
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
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
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
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 more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
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
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
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

I grow old learning something new every day.

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