Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONWealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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 man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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