Solon
Solon
Solonwas an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defense of his constitutional reforms...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionStatesman
good-life waiting age
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
citizens done injury
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
law break-through spiders
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.
leadership empowering-others born-leaders
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
men desire riding
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.
No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.