Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONTrue blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Poets tell many lies.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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, ever learning many things.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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