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Speech is the mirror of action.

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Learn to obey before you command.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Wealth I desire to have but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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