"Solon's way of living was expensive and profuse and if in his poems, he speaks of pleasure with more freedom than bec…"

"Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws tha…"

"Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break …"

"Athens, which like other cities was distracted and oppressed by a privileged class, avoided violence and appointed So…"

"Do not counsel what is most pleasant, but what is best."

"An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky…"

"No fool can be silent at a feast."

"If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave…"

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

"Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule."