Solon Quotes

39 quotes in 316 categories

• Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
• Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
• I grow old, ever learning many things.
• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
• Learn to obey before you command.
• Speech is the mirror of action.
• I grow old learning something new every day.
• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
• No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
• Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
• In all things that you do, consider the end.
• No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear
• Call no man happy until he is dead.
• Each day grow older, and learn something new;
• 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…
• Justice, even if slow, is sure.
• In all things let reason be your guide.
• 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…
• Say nothing but good of the dead.

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