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In all things that you do, consider the end.

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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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
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
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
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
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
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
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True

In all things that you do, consider the end.

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