75 Quotes by Solon

[The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Vertraue einem edlen Charakter mehr als einem Eid.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.