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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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exchange Man Ourselves Poor Rich Virtue
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Chastity Desire Grace Ourselves Peace Purity Soul
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
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
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
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

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