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“Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Solon. xii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 82dfcd7908a867ccb681ce142e90b44db0a8c292f155d4c6fa7dd4dd89f25895
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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