What thou seest, speak of with caution.
SOLONRule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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