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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
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
No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Feast Fool One Liner Silence
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
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
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Advice Friendship Please Seek
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
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Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True

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