True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
SOLONIf 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.
More Solon Quotes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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