Solón citáty

„Keby všetci ľudia poznášali svoje problémy na jedno miesto, chcel by si každý z nich radšej odniesť domov tie svoje, ako dostať zo spoločnej hromady bied pomerný diel.“

—  Solón

„Kým žiješ, uč sa! Nečakaj, aby staroba priniesla so sebou múdrosť.“

—  Solón

„Pred smrťou nie je nikto blažený.“

—  Solón

„Väčšmi dôverujte vznešenosti charakteru ako prísahe.“

—  Solón

„Nezískavaj rýchlo priateľov, a tých, ktorých získaš, rýchlo nezavrhuj.“

—  Solón

„Ak by všetci ľudia priniesli svoju biedu na jedno miesto, väčšina bude šťastná, keď si bude môcť zobrať domov svoju vlastnú, než by si mala odniesť diel zo spoločného nešťastia.“

—  Solón

„Call no man happy until he is dead.“

—  Solón

„No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear“

—  Solón

„In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.“

—  Solón

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

—  Solón

„If through your vices you afflicted are,
Lay not the blame of your distress on God;
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards,
So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.“

—  Solón

Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.

„Watch well each separate citizen,
Lest having in his heart of hearts
A secret spear, one still may come
Saluting you with cheerful face,
And utter with a double tongue
The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.“

—  Solón

Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 13, p. 29.

„Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.“

—  Solón

Reported in George Shelley Hughs, Ancient Civilizations (1896), p. 596.

„No fool can be silent at a feast.“

—  Solón

Epictetus, Fragment 71, translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0237&query=chapter%3D%23192&chunk=book

„Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.“

—  Solón

Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.

„Do not counsel what is most pleasant, but what is best.“

—  Solón

Demetrius of Phalerum, "Apophthegms of the Seven Sages," in Early Greek Philosophy, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library, volume 525), p. 141

„Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.“

—  Solón

Plutarch Solon, ch. 2; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+2.1

„As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.“

—  Solón

Plutarch Solon, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+27.1

„I grow old ever learning many things.“

—  Solón

Plutarch, Solon, ch. 31; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+31.1
Variant translation: As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
Originál: (el) Γηράσκω δ’ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος.