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Solon , né à Athènes vers 640 av. J.-C. et mort sur l'île de Chypre vers 558 av. J.-C., est un homme d'État, législateur et poète athénien. En réponse à un poème jeuniste de Ménechme, il écrit : « Je deviens vieux en apprenant toujours ». Souvent considéré comme ayant instauré la démocratie à Athènes, il fait partie des Sept Sages de la Grèce. Solon a joué un rôle politique important, étant à l'origine d'une série de réformes qui accrurent considérablement le rôle de la classe populaire dans la politique athénienne.

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Solon Citations

“Heureux qui a des garçons à aimer, de bons chevaux, des chiens de chasse, et un hôte étranger.”

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Citations raportées, Lysis

chienne , chiens , Cheval

“Oui, le but pour lequel j’ai réuni le peuple, me suis-je arrêté avant de l’avoir atteint? Elle peut mieux que tout autre m’en rendre témoignage au tribunal du temps, la vénérable mère des Olympiens, la Terre noire, dont j’ai alors arraché les bornes enfoncées en tout lieu; esclave autrefois, maintenant elle est libre.”

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Citations raportées, Constitutions d'Athènes

mère , temps

Solon: Citations en anglais

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

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“Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.”

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

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him…He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

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Herodotus (trans. Robin Waterfield) The Histories Bk. 1, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.

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

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Plutarch Solon, ch. 18; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+18.1
Having been asked what city was best to live in.

“No fool can be silent at a feast.”

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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

“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.”

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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.”

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

“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.”

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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.”

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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.

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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