Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
SOLONConsider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Poets tell many lies.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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 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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