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
excited good race ran
Durant-Bennett just ran a good race, ... We're excited that we have one more meet. This is not the way we wanted to end.
governed law obey people society
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
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.
gentleman weight oath
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
riches satiety
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
trust character nobility
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
gold wicked riches
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
each-day something-new grows
Each day grow older, and learn something new;
call happy man until
Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.