No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear
- Solon
More Quotes By Solon
- Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence...
- A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
- He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
- In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the...
- Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but...
- Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself...
- Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
- We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as...
- Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my...
- The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an...
- In all things that you do, consider the end.
- In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
- If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take...
- Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
- Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things...
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