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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
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
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
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
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
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
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
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
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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