He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
SOLONEach day grow older, and learn something new.
More Solon Quotes
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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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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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break 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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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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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