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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
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• 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.
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• Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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• Goodness is the root of all evil.
• Virtue is its own reward. [and] Ignorance of good and evil is the most upsetting fact of human life.
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• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
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