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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Poets tell many lies.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
Speech is the mirror of action.
No fool can be silent at a feast.
Say nothing but good of the dead.
Learn to obey before you command.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
Angels are winged with God's power.
I grow old, ever learning many things.
In all things let reason be your guide.
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
In all things that you do, consider the end.
I grow old learning something new every day.
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
