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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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, 'That when they speak truth they are not believed.'
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Democritus says, 'But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.'
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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
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