Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLONIn all things let reason be your guide.
More Solon Quotes
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Learn to obey before you command.
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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break 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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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