Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLONWealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
More Solon Quotes
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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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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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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