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In all things let reason be your guide.

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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
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
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
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
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
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit

In all things let reason be your guide.

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