Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLONAs I grow older, I constantly learn more.
More Solon Quotes
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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