Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Solon
Chide a friend in private and ...
Quotes from the same author
Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.
Solon
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Solon
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
Solon
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.
Solon
Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon
