Solon Quotes
Most popular Solon Quotes

Know Thyself.

Shun evil company.

Speech is the mirror of action.

I grow old learning something new everyday.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

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

Advise not what is most pleasant, but what is most useful.

A man has one thing to fear, that is to die before he becomes a philosopher.

The happiness of the outward life arises from honest action and temperate living.

A great city is when the citizens obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws.

Laws are like cobwebs which entangle the weak, but through which the greater break uninjured.

Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.