Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONWhat thou seest, speak of with caution.
More Solon Quotes
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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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 all things that you do, consider the end.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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