Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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