The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
SOLONThe 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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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Poets tell many lies.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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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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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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