Anacharsis Quotes

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My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country.

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The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.

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On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick:
The passengers are just that distance from death.

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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance

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Laws are like spiders' webs; they hold the weak and delicate who are caught in their meshes, but are torn to pieces by the rich and powerful.

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These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

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Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

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[Anacharsis] laughed at him [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich.

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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.

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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?

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