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In all things that you do, consider the end.

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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
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
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
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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
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, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
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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