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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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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
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
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise 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
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
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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Home Man Misery Oneself Place Togetherness
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
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

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