Frases de Solón

“Procura instruirte mientras vivas; no creas que la vejez trae consigo la razón.”

“Guárdate bien de decir todo lo que sabes.”

“Busca dentro de ti mismo, en tu cabeza; y allí lo encontrareis todo.”

“Los dioses no han hecho más que dos cosas perfectas, la mujer y la rosa.”

“No destruyas lo que no has hecho.”

“Funda tus ventajas sobre la probidad de un hombre, antes que sobre sus palabras.”

“Feliz el hombre que ha empleado el tiempo.”

“Aprenderas a gobernar, después de aprender a ser gobernado.”

“Olvídate de lo malo, que contra tu voluntad, prometiste hacer.”

“Pon a tus palabras el sello del silencio, y al silencio el de la oportunidad.”

“Hace falta saber obedecer para saber mandar.”

“La palabra es el espejo de la acción.”

“Las leyes son semejantes a las telas de araña: contienen lo débil y lo ligero, y son deshechas y traspasadas por lo fuerte y lo poderoso.”

“No aconsejes lo agradable sino lo mejor”

“Conócete a ti mismo.”

“La austeridad es una de las grandes virtudes de un pueblo inteligente.”

“La sociedad está bien ordenada cuando los ciudadanos obedecen a los magistrados y los magistrados a las leyes.”

“Nada en demasía.”

“Sé apacible con los tuyos.”

“No te metas a juez, que te harás enemigo del preso.”

“A menudo el odio se disfraza con una careta sonriente y la lengua se expresa en tono amistoso, mientras el corazón está lleno de hiel.”

“Cállate lo que sepas.”

“El consejo de un amigo es como vino generoso en copa de oro.”

“Evita el placer que provoca la tristeza.”

“Hay que ocupar en todo el justo medio.”

“Huye de los placeres que engendran tristeza.”

“La abundancia engendra satisfacción; la satisfacción, ánimo y buena voluntad.”

“La saciedad engendra la desmesura.”

“Mientras mas envejecemos más aprendemos.”

“No digas que hay justicia mayor que la de ser justo para los que nos engendraron.”

“Pon más fuerza en la nobleza de tu carácter que en los mismos juramentos.”

“Preocúpate de lo virtuoso.”

“Sírvate lo aparente de indicio para lo no aparente.”

“Por lo conocido, conjetura lo desconocido.”

“No trates familiarmente con los malos.”

“No hables de lo que veas con los ojos.”

“Envejezco aprendiendo siempre muchas cosas.”

“El mejor gobierno es aquel en que se mira a toda la sociedad la injuria hecha al menor de sus ciudadanos.”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear”

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

“Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.”

“Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.”

“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.”

“That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.”

“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 them guards,
So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”

“Watch well each separate citizen,
Lest having in his heart of hearts
A secret spear, one still may come
Saluting you with cheerful face,
And utter with a double tongue
The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”

“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.”

“I grow old ever learning many things.”

“Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.”

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

“Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.”

“Do not counsel what is most pleasant, but what is best.”