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• Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
• Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
• I grow old, ever learning many things.
• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
• Learn to obey before you command.
• Speech is the mirror of action.
• I grow old learning something new every day.
• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
• No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
• Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
• In all things that you do, consider the end.

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