In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLONJustice, even if slow, is sure.
More Solon Quotes
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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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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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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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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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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