Solon Quotes
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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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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Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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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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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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In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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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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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Know thyself.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.