We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
More Solon Quotes
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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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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Poets tell many lies.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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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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