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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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Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
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
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
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Government Law Obedience People Society
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess

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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