Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONAs I grow older, I constantly learn more.
More Solon Quotes
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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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Poets tell many lies.
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