To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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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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We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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