Solon's Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Learn to obey before you command. — Solon

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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. — 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 more good must be attempted than the nation can bear — Solon

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate. — Solon

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

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

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

May the sun smile upon you and all storms find you in port — Brent Weeks

Mom always said too much chocolate is like having too much love - you can't get enough-Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious — Geraldine 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

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

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

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world. — Geraldine 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

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. — Solon

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

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

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

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

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

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, 'Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?' And the sage answered him, 'Precisely for that reason - because it does not avail. — Miguel De Unamuno

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

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. — Solon

You see, this is the problem with conversation," Solon said with a sigh, and looked at Ander. "All we ever do is talk about ourselves. Let us stop before we bore each other, well, to tears. — Lauren Kate

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

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

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

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

But when we reflect how difficult it is to move or inflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear, and that will be chiefly to reform the waste of public money, and thus drive away the vultures who prey on it, and improve some little on old routines. Even — Jon Meacham

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — 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.

well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed - often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law - were — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Art contained an undefined mystery that spoke to her soul. — Geraldine Solon

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. — Diogenes

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

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

I grow old learning something new every day. — Solon

Angels are winged with God's power. — Solon

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. — Solon

Oh, you know me." Jean reached behind his neck, down behind the loose leather vest he wore over his simple cotton tunic. He withdrew a pair of matching hatchets, each a foot and a half in length, with leather-wrapped handles and straight black blades that narrowed like scalpels. These were balanced with balls of blackened steel, each as wide around as a silver solon. The Wicked Sisters - Jean's weapons of choice. "I never travel alone. It's always the three of us. — Scott Lynch

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

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

No fool can be silent at a feast. — Solon

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

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

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

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

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

In all things let reason be your guide. — Solon

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

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

Say nothing but good of the dead. — 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

Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly. — Solon

I grow old, ever learning many things. — 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.

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

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

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

What thou seest, speak of with caution. — Solon

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon

The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her big white Cadillac out in front of Red's Goodlookin Bar and Gro. and leave the motor running and scoot inside, out of the first drops of rain, on an errand. Glenn's daddy was named Solon. — Lewis Nordan

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

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

My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed and the manufacturer of a phantom, according to our definition of an imitator, and if you need to be able to distinguish between the pursuits which make men better or worse, in private and in public, tell us what city owes a better constitution to you, as Lacedaemon owes hers to Lycurgus, and as many cities, great and small, owe theirs to many other legislators? What state attributes to you the benefits derived from a good code of laws? Italy and Sicily recognize Charondas in this capacity, and we solon. But what state recognizes you. — Plato

Power proves the man". — 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

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

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate. — Geraldine Solon

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

Speech is the mirror of action. — Solon

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

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it. — Geraldine Solon

count no man happy until he be dead. — Solon

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

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

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

If a man loves you he's not going to ask you to give up the things you love. — 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

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky. — 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

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

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule. — Solon

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work. — Geraldine Solon

Call no man happy until he is dead. — Solon

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