Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
SOLONA half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
More Solon Quotes
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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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Poets tell many lies.
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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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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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In all things let reason be your guide.
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