Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
SOLON
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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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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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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