As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
SOLON
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
More Solon Quotes
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Poets tell many lies.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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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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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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