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• 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 now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

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  Government, Vices, Slavery

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• What thou seest, speak of with caution.

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  Speak, Secrecy, Caution

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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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  Fall, Law, Break Through

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• No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• Speech is the mirror of action.

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  Mirrors, Theatre, Speech

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• Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

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  Good Life, Firsts, Submit

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by C. D. Yonge, ("Solon"), sect. 12, (p. 29), 1853.

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• Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

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  Gentleman, Weight, Oath

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, trans. C. D. Yonge. "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29, 1853.

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• Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

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  Honor, Exceed

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• Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

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  Friends, Praise

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• Know thyself.
  [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

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  Knowledge, Greek, Know Thyself

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• If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

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  Religion, Legislation, Wells

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• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

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  Grace, Soul, Desire

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• Say nothing but good of the dead.

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  Death

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• Poets tell many lies.

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  Lying, Poet

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• Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

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  Riches, Satiety

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• Learn to obey before you command.

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  Education, Military, Learning

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• Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

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  Wealth, Outrage, Satiety

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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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  Happiness, Men, Lucky

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• For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

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  Integrity, Men, Evil

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• 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.

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  Party, Men, Law

  "Ancient Civilizations". Book by George Shelley Hughs, p. 596, 1896.

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• True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

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  Good Life, Happy Death, Blessedness

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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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  Cities, Wronged

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• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

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  Men, Blessing, Giving

  "Solon". Book by Plutarch, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1497.

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• Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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  Men, Agreement, Break

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• To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

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  Law, People, Empires

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