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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
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
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
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
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
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
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People

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