Justice, even if slow, is sure.
SOLONHe who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Poets tell many lies.
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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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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