Solon Quotes - Page 3

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• I grow old, ever learning many things.

  Solon

  Learning, Aging, Grows

  Fragment 22

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• 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

  Heart, Mind, Secret

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• As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

  Solon

  Grows

  Quoted in Bergk (ed) Poetae Lyrici Graeci,'Solon', no.18.

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• Angels are winged with God's power.

  Solon

  Angel

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

  Solon

  Party, Men, Law

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• 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

  Men, Desire, Riding

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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