As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
SOLONLaws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
More Solon Quotes
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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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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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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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 all things that you do, consider the end.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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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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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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Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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