What thou seest, speak of with caution.
SOLONLearn to obey before you command.
More Solon Quotes
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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