Solon Quotes
- Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than… — Plutarch
- Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… — Diogenes
- No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon… — George Bernard Shaw
- There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.