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

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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Blame God Guard Rule Slave Vice Yourself
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
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
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
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
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
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
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

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

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