No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLONPut more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
More Solon Quotes
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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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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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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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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