Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
SOLONEach day grow older, and learn something new.
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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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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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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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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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