Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLONTrue blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
More Solon Quotes
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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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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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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 that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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