Solon Quotes

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• If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
• Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
• 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,…
• Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
• No fool can be silent at a feast.
• Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
• In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
• Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
• Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
• Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
• Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
• Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
• No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.
• I grow old learning something new everyday.
• If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their…
• Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

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