Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLONThat city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
More Solon Quotes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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