Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLONEach day grow older, and learn something new.
More Solon Quotes
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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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