Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON
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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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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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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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