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

— Solón

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.

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Athenian legislator -638–-558 BC

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