No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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More Solon Quotes
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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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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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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