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Poets tell many lies.

Solon

In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
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
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
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself

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