He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
SOLONThat city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
More Solon Quotes
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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