Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
SOLONConsider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
More Solon Quotes
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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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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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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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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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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