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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
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
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
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
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
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Citizenship Heart Mindset Oneself Secret Separate
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
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
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

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