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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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
More Solon Quotes
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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Poets tell many lies.
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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.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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