A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
SOLONLearn to obey before you command.
More Solon Quotes
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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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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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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