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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
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
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
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
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
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
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
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
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek

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