Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLONEach day grow older, and learn something new.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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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 learning something new every day.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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