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• Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. -- Solo
• Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
  -- Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C....
• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Solon, xvi...
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• Learn to obey before you command. -- Solo
• Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How to profit by our Enemie...
• Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece
  For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother....
• Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
  Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance....
• Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonu
  coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?...