Poets tell many lies.
SOLONJustice, even if slow, is sure.
More Solon Quotes
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than 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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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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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