Learn to obey before you command.
SOLONHe who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
More Solon Quotes
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break 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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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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