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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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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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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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I grow old, ever learning many things.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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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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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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