Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONLaws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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 giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Poets tell many lies.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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I grow old learning something new 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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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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