Solon Quotes

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. ~ Solon

This is the best time to be an author. ~ Geraldine Solon

What thou seest, speak of with caution. ~ Solon

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

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. ~ Solon

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

I grow old learning something new every day. ~ Solon

Long life to Commerce! My soul expands at the sight of its life. What has not commerce done from the beginning of the world for the embellishment of life, for promoting the friendly intercourse of countries and people, for the refinement of manners! It has always given me delight, that the wisest and most humane of the lawgivers of antiquity - Solon - was a merchant. ~ Fredrika Bremer

In all things that you do, consider the end. ~ Solon

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

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. ~ Solon

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

Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that. ~ Lauren Kate

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear ~ Solon

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

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

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

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

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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ~ Solon

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

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

Count no man happy until the end is known. ~ Solon

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate. ~ Solon

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

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

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

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. ~ Solon

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

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

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

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. ~ Solon

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

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. ~ Solon

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

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

I grow old, ever learning many things. ~ Solon

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens. ~ Russell Kirk

No fool can be silent at a feast. ~ Solon

Call no man happy until he is dead. ~ Solon

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

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

Each of us has magic within us. We take our quirks from the universal store ~ Lauren Kate

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. ~ Solon

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.

Learn to obey before you command. ~ Solon

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death. ~ Solon

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

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.

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

This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all ~ Plato

[Grant me from the blessed gods prosperity, and] from all mankind the possession ever of good repute; [and that I may thus be a delight to my friends, and an affliction to my foes, but the first revered], by the other beheld with dread. ~ Solon

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

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

O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are but children. [...] There is no old doctrine handed down among you by ancient tradition nor any science which is hoary with age, and I will tell you the reason behind this. There have been and will be again many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes, the greatest having been brought about by earth-fire and inundation. Whatever happened either in your country or ours or in any other country of which we are informed, any action which is noble and great or in any other way remarkable which has taken place, all that has been inscribed long ago in our temple records, whereas you and other nations did not keep imperishable records. And then, after a period of time, the usual inundation visits like a pestilence and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education. And thus you have to begin over again as children and know nothing of what happened in ancient times either among us or among yourselves.'
'As for those genealogies of yours which you have related to us, they are no better than tales of children; for in the first place, you remember one deluge only, whereas there were a number of them. And in the next place there dwelt in your land, which you do not know, the fairest and noblest race of men that ever lived of which you are but a seed or remnant. And this was not known to you because for many generations the survivors of that destruction made no records.'
[Spoken by a priest of Egypt] ~ Plato

You are learning that what you require and what your frame may endure can be two very different things. If only I could have a solon for every patient who came to me speaking as you do! 'Ibelius, I have smoked Jeremite powders for twenty years and now my throat bleeds, make me well!' 'Ibelius, I have been drunk and brawling all night, and now my eye has been cut out! Restore my vision, damn you.' Why, let us not speak of solons, let us instead say a copper baron per such outburst...I could still retire to Lashain a gentleman! ~ Scott Lynch

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

You can't tell the heart who to love. ~ Geraldine Solon

[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

A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience. ~ Geraldine Solon

I've always been a firm believer that love conquers all and that every woman's experience is a story in itself. Life is a never-ending journey and my imagination and experiences have inspired me to write powerful stories. Although my books are fiction, my goal is to offer compelling lessons about life and love. The message I wish to convey to my readers is that despite the many challenges we face in this world, we must have hope and faith. Overall, it is love that binds us together. ~ Geraldine Solon

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

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

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

Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant. ~ Daniel Peter Buckley

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

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