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Solon Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Desire Learning Wealth
I grow old, ever learning many things.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

Solon
Learning, Aging, Grows
Fragment 22

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

Angels are winged with God's power.

Solon
Angel

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

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

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

Solon
Party, Men, Law

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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