Famous Quotes / Solon
10 Quotations by Solon
- 1. I grow old learning something new every day.
- 2. In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
- 3. Learn to obey before you command.
- 4. Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
- 5. Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
- 6. No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
- 7. Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
- 8. Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
- 9. Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
- 10. Speech is the mirror of action.