Say nothing but good of the dead.
SOLONConsider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
More Solon Quotes
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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Learn to obey before you command.
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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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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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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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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Poets tell many lies.
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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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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
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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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Angels are winged with God’s power.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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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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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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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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