Learn to obey before you command.
SOLONLearn to obey before you command.
SOLONHonors achieved far exceed those that are created.
SOLONMen keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
SOLONI grow old, ever learning many things.
SOLONNo more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
SOLONSpeech is the mirror of action.
SOLONLaws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
SOLONConsider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONSay nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONWe can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
SOLONIn 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.
SOLONRich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLONA half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
SOLONHe who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
SOLONLet no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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