Solon Quotes
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
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In all things let reason be your guide.
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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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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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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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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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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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Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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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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Know thyself.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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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.