Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLONFor often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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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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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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