Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLONSpeech is the mirror of action.
More Solon Quotes
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Poets tell many lies.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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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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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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