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A very fair spot but there is no way down from it. - [Dictatorship] Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. - [Friends] He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. - [Fame] Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. - [Honor] I grow old ever learning many things. - [Learning : Aging] If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. - [Misfortune] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - [Misfortune] Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] - his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi, attributed to Socrates by Plate, later also attributed to Chilo of Thales and Pythagoras [Mottoes : Proverbs : Knowledge] Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - [Law] Look to the end of a long life. - words said to Croesus [End] Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. - [Agreement] No fool can be silent at a feast. - [Fools] No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. - [Happiness] Poets tell many lies. - [Poets] Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - [Trust] Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. - [Reproof] Rich men without wisdom and learning are called sheep with golden fleeces. - [Riches] Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. - [Riches] Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. - [Obedience] Speech is the image of actions. - [Speech] To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. - [Law] True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death. - [Blessedness] What thou seest, speak of with caution. - [Secrecy] Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them. - Answer to Anacharsis, in Plutarch's "Life of Solon" [Law]
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