Learn to obey before you command.
SOLONLet no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
More Solon Quotes
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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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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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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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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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to 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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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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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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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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Poets tell many lies.
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