Solon

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

In all things that you do consider the end.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Speech is the mirror of action.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Learn to obey before you command.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.