Solon Quotes
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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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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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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Watch 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.
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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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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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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 who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
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Learn to obey before you command.
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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.
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For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
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