In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLONIn giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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