Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONMen keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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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Learn to obey before you command.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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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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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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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Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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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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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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 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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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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