Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
SOLONRich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
More Solon Quotes
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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In 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.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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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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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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Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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