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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

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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
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
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
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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Home Man Misery Oneself Place Togetherness
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
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
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
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Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
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

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