In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLONPure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
More Solon Quotes
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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