Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLONI grow old, ever learning many things.
More Solon Quotes
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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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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