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.
SOLON
The 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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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