True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
More Solon Quotes
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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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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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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