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• 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....
• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actio
  ... that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fa...
• He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiii
• He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• Nothing can be produced out of nothing. -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
  200 AD) -- Diogenes of Apollonia, ii...
• Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lii...
• Time is the image of eternity. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xli