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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Solon

I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON

Day Growth Old
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
SOLON

Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLON

Break Escape Law Small Spider
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
SOLON

Benefit Legislation Religion
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
SOLON

Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
In all things that you do, consider the end.
SOLON

End Yourself
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLON

Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON

Government Law Obedience People Society
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
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.
SOLON

Citizenship Heart Mindset Oneself Secret Separate
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON

Call Death Happiness Himself
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
SOLON

Citizenship Ideal Injury State
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
SOLON

Character Noble Promise Trust
No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON

Feast Fool One Liner Silence
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
SOLON

Angry Injury Justice

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

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