Clear your mind of can’t.
– Solon
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
– Solon
True blessedness consists in a good life and a happy death.
– Solon
Rich men without wisdom and learning are called sheep with golden fleeces.
– Solon
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
– Solon
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
– Solon
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
– Solon
Call no man happy until he is dead.
– Solon
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
– Solon
Pursue worthy aims.
– Solon
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to
all.
– Solon
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
– Solon
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 own and depart.
– Solon
Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large
things break through and escape.
– Solon
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey
the law.
– Solon