Author of quotes: Diogenes Laertius

About the dead either good or nothing but the truth.

Sweeter than all, - he said - to hear the truth. (And the other broadcast: "tell the truth".)

Water washes away all human evil.

It is necessary to investigate not the case on the words, and the words for, for things are done for words, and words for deeds.

If all citizens want, where you happen to live:
In this - the good, the true, bold well wishes
Evil sparkles fate.

What power only stronger? The one cut on the tree, that is, the laws.

What is the best? - Good to do what you are doing.

It is better to forgive than to regret.

Happy tyrant, who will die at home by his death.

And he say, asked Aesop what Zeus and Aesop said, "belittles the High, low uplifts". On the question of what distinguishes people with education from people without education, he said, "feed hope". And the question that hard - "to Keep secret; not to abuse leisure time; to endure insult".

Neither my laws were not in favor of the Athenians, nor are you your purifications did not help the citizens. For ceremonies and legislators themselves can help the state, but only the people who lead the crowd, wherever you want. If they do it well, and the rites and laws useful when bad, it is useless.

... when he mourned for his son (about whom nothing more is known), someone said to him, "it's useless!" - "That's why I cry that it is useless," replied salty.

Beautiful and kind believe more than sworn. Don't lie. Pekis on important. To make friends don't rush, and don't leave Zavadski. Before ordering, learn to obey. Advise not acceptable, advise the best. Mind your counselor. With bad do not communicate. The gods, honor parents, honor.

He [Solon] said that the word is the image of the case; that the king only the one who is stronger; that laws are like spiders ' webs which, if they come across a powerless and lightweight, they'll survive, if large - he will rip them and get out. He said that silence holds speech and timeliness holds the silence. Those who are in the power of the tyrants, he said, is similar to pebbles at the score: how the stone means that a larger number, then smaller, so they are at the tyrants are in greatness and splendor, in contempt. To the question why he did not set a law against parricide, he replied: "That he did not need". The question of how to get rid of crime among the people, he replied: "it is Necessary that the injured and uninjured was equally hard," and added: "wealth is born From satiety, from satiety - the dog."