I grow old, ever learning many things.
SOLONSay nothing but good of the dead.
More Solon Quotes
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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.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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