Learn to obey before you command.
SOLONNo man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
More Solon Quotes
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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