Citas de Solón

• 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

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• 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

  Confused, Simple, Law

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

  Solon

  Life, Justice, Liberty

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• In all things that you do, consider the end.

  Solon

  Inspirational, Ends, All Things

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• Una verdad a medias es la peor de las mentiras, porque puede defenderse con parcialidad.

  Solon

  Mentira, Mitad, Verdad Es

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• Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

  Solon

  Good Life, Waiting, Age

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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

  Solon

  Law, Umpires, People

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• I grow old learning something new every day.

  Solon

  Learning Something New, New Day, Something New

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

  Solon

  Citizens, Done, Injury

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

  Solon

  Wisdom, Sheep, People

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• A menudo los malvados prosperan, mientras que los justos mueren de hambre; sin embargo, nunca cambiaría mi estado por el de ellos, mi virtud por su oro. Pues la mía perdura, mientras que las riquezas cambian de dueño cada día.

  Solon

  Wicked, Gold, Riches

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

  Solon

  Life, Friendship, Giving

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• In all things let reason be your guide.

  Solon

  Reason, Guides, All Things

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• Justice, even if slow, is sure.

  Solon

  Justice, Ifs

  "Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, translation by Bernadotte Perrin, "Solon", 2013.

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• Confía más en la nobleza de carácter que en un juramento.

  Solon

  Inspirational, Trust, Character

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• 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

  Gratitude, Home, Men

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• Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

  Solon

  Friendship (Amistad)

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

  Solon

  Hombres, Maldad, Buen Hombre

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• Call no man happy until he is dead.

  Solon

  Men, Disgrace

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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.

  Solon

  Fall, Law, Break Through

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

  Solon

  Good Life, Wish, Desire

  "Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, translation by Bernadotte Perrin, "Solon", 2013.

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• Speech is the mirror of action.

  Solon

  Mirrors, Theatre, Speech

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• He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

  Solon

  Fame, Interest, Public Interest

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

  Solon

  Knowledge, Greek, Know Thyself

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