I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLONA half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
More Solon Quotes
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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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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