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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.
SolonSolon Learn to obey before you command.
SolonSolon If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
SolonSolon No fool can be silent at a feast.
SolonSolon 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.
SolonSolon Angels are winged with God’s power.
SolonSolon Justice, even if slow, is sure.
SolonSolon As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
SolonSolon Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
SolonSolon Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
SolonSolon To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
SolonSolon Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SolonSolon In all things let reason be your guide.
SolonSolon True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
SolonSolon No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
SolonSolon Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
SolonSolon
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John KeatsJohn Keats There are remedies for all things but death.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John KeatsJohn Keats Dead men will tell you, never stand in the way of a determined woman.
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