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In all things that you do, consider the end.

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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
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
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
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
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
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
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
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
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet

In all things that you do, consider the end.

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