Top 85 Solon's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Solon's

#1. Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

Plutarch

#2. True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

Solon

#3. Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Solon

#4. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

#5. In all things that you do, consider the end.

Solon

#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.

Solon

#7. Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.

Solon

#8. No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

#9. A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, 'Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?' And the sage answered him, 'Precisely for that reason - because it does not avail.

Miguel De Unamuno

#10. Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Solon

#11. Learn to obey before you command.

Solon

#12. A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.

Geraldine Solon

#13. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Solon

#14. Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Solon

#16. Art contained an undefined mystery that spoke to her soul.

Geraldine Solon

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

Solon

#18. Call no man happy until he is dead.

Solon

#19. Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

Solon

#20. What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Solon

#21. You can't tell the heart who to love.

Geraldine Solon

#22. No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Caesar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

George Bernard Shaw

#23. A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you've lost everything, there is hope.

Geraldine Solon

#24. May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

Geraldine Solon

#25. That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Solon

#26. Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.

Solon

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

Solon

#28. A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

Solon

#29. Angels are winged with God's power.

Solon

#30. Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

Solon

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

Solon

#32. May the sun smile upon you and all storms find you in port

Brent Weeks

#33. Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

Lewis Nordan

#34. Each of us has magic within us. We take our quirks from the universal store

Lauren Kate

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

Solon

#36. He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

Solon

#37. Do we get only one?" William asked.
"Ambitious lad," Solon said. "Well, why should there be a limit? One quirk is a miracle, but don't let me stand in your way. Quirk out as much as you like.

Lauren Kate

#38. 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, while riches change their owner every day.

Solon

#39. No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Solon

#40. count no man happy until he be dead.

Solon

#41. Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

Geraldine Solon

#42. Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that.

Lauren Kate

#43. If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Solon

#44. 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.

Solon

#45. No fool can be silent at a feast.

Solon

#46. Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Solon

#47. Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant.

Daniel Peter Buckley

#48. In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

Solon

#49. An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

Geraldine Solon

#50. The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Solon

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

Solon

#52. Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Solon

#53. When you want something you can't have, it's like a strong magnet. It can come to control you.

Geraldine Solon

#54. Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

Geraldine Solon

#55. That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased;

Aristotle.

#56. Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

#57. This is the best time to be an author.

Geraldine Solon

#58. We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Solon

#59. Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon

#60. You see, this is the problem with conversation," Solon said with a sigh, and looked at Ander. "All we ever do is talk about ourselves. Let us stop before we bore each other, well, to tears.

Lauren Kate

#61. Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Solon

#62. Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Solon

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

Solon

#64. Say nothing but good of the dead.

Solon

#65. You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Geraldine Solon

#66. 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 take a portion out of the common stock.

Solon

#67. There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#68. People live their lives like something's chasing them and by the time you get to the end, you look back and wonder if it was all worth it.

Geraldine Solon

#69. I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

#70. 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.

Solon

#71. Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Solon

#72. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#73. An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him ... He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Solon

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

Solon

#75. If a man loves you he's not going to ask you to give up the things you love.

Geraldine Solon

#76. Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Diogenes

#77. Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Solon

#78. I grow old, ever learning many things.

Solon

#79. [The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

Solon