Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
More Solon Quotes
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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 fool can be silent at a feast.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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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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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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Poets tell many lies.
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The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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