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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.

Solon

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
SOLON

Age Faith Learning Live Wisdom
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
SOLON

Justice One Liner Slow
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
SOLON

Advantage Agreement Break
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLON

Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
SOLON

Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
SOLON

Citizenship Ideal Injury State
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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Evil Excellence exchange Man Rich
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Call Death Happiness Himself
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLON

Break Escape Law Small Spider
Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON

Action Mirror One Liner Talk
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLON

Advice Friendship Please Seek
In all things let reason be your guide.
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Guide One Liner Reason Yourself
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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Action Punishment Wrong
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings

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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