Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
SOLONReprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
More Solon Quotes
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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If 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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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