Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLONThe ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
More Solon Quotes
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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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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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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