He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions ... that laws were like cobwebs, for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
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