Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONHonors achieved far exceed those that are created.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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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 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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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