Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLONReprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLONSay nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONMen keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
SOLONMen 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.
SOLONChide a friend in private and praise him in public.
SOLONNo more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
SOLONWealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
SOLONIn giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
SOLONPoets tell many lies.
SOLONNo fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLONThat city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
SOLONMany evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
SOLONPut more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
SOLONNo man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLONWatch 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.
SOLONIf all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
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