To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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More Solon Quotes
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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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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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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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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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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He who has learned how to obey will know how to 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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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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