I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLONWatch 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.
More Solon Quotes
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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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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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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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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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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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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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