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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
I grow old learning something new every day.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Learn to obey before you command.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
Speech is the mirror of action.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.
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