Solon Quotes
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.
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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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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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Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
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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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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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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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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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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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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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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
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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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Poets tell many lies.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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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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In all things that you do, consider the end.
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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.