75 Quotes by Solon

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

I hate to say it was vindication, but that is how we felt,

Durant-Bennett just ran a good race, ... We're excited that we have one more meet. This is not the way we wanted to end.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.