Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONConsider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
More Solon Quotes
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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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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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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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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