I grow old, ever learning many things.
SOLONLearn to obey before you command.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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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 man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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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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