Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
SOLONHonors achieved far exceed those that are created.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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