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Learn to obey before you command.

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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Benefit Legislation Religion
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
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
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
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
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
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
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
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
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
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk

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