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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

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Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON

Call Death Happiness
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
SOLON

Benefit Legislation Religion
Learn to obey before you command.
SOLON

Command Learning Obedience Yourself
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLON

Break Escape Law Small Spider
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLON

Advice Friendship Please Seek
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
SOLON

Learning Rule Submit
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON

Call Death Happiness Himself
Poets tell many lies.
SOLON

Lying One Liner Poet
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
SOLON

Growth Learning Myself Old
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
SOLON

Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
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.
SOLON

Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLON

Death Goodness One Liner
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
SOLON

Action Seek Talk Yourself
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
SOLON

Angry Injury Justice
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
SOLON

Day Growth Learning Old
No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON

Feast Fool One Liner Silence

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