Solón citáty
Solón
Datum narození: 638 př. n. l.
Datum úmrtí: 558 př. n. l.
Solón byl slavný antický řecký básník a zákonodárce v Athénách.
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Citáty Solón
„Rovnost nemůže zplodit válku.“
— Solón
Zdroj: [Vernant, Jean-Piere, 1993, Počátky řeckého myšlení, Oikoymenh, 62, 80-85241-45-5]
„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.