Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLONI grow old learning something new every day.
More Solon Quotes
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Men 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.
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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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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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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Poets tell many lies.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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