That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
SOLONMen 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.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Poets tell many lies.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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