Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLON
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
More Solon Quotes
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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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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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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