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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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON

Feast Fool One Liner Silence
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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Citizenship Heart Mindset Oneself Secret Separate
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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Confusion Ideal Law Simplicity State Uncertain
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLON

Advice Friendship Please Seek
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Chastity Desire Grace Ourselves Peace Purity Soul
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
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
SOLON

Angry Injury Justice
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
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.
SOLON

Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
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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Home Man Misery Oneself Place Togetherness
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience

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