Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
SOLON
A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
More Solon Quotes
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Say nothing but good of the 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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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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