Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONNo fool can be silent at a feast.
More Solon Quotes
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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