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Solon

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Solon
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Quote 1

I grow old learning something new every day.

Quote 2

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Quote 3

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Quote 4

In giving advice, try to help, not to please.

Quote 5

Society is well governed when people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Quote 6

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.

Quote 7

The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.