Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the...

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the...

Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it,...

Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it,...

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Speech is the mirror of action.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

I grow old learning something new everyday.

I grow old learning something new everyday.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an...

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an...

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Learn to obey before you command.

Learn to obey before you command.

No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.

No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy,...

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy,...