Frasi di Solone

“Non esiste cretino che sia silenzioso ad una festa.”

“I poeti dicono molte falsità.”

“Nessuno può essere definito felice prima che sia morto.”

“Impara a ubbidire e imparerai a comandare.”

“Invecchio imparando ogni giorno molte cose.”

Origine: Frase scritta da Solone in un angolo del tempio di Apollo a Delfi; citato in Luciano De Crescenzo, Storia della filosofia greca. I Presocratici, Mondadori, 2005, p. 20.

Solone Frasi e Citazioni

“Sapendo taci.”

“Col desiderio delle cosce e della dolce bocca.”

Origine: Citato in Luciano De Crescenzo, op. cit., p. 18.

Attribuite
Origine: Citato in Apuleio, Sulla magia e con sua difesa, EDIPEM, 1973.

“Conosci te stesso.”

“Molti uomini malvagi sono ricchi, e quelli buoni poveri, ma noi non scambieremo con loro la nostra superiorità per la ricchezza.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 513
Attribuite

“Non definire un uomo felice finché non muore: tutt'al più, egli è fortunato.”

“Ciascuno ha buona stima di sé prima di subire qualcosa; poi subito si affligge, ma fino a quel momento a bocca aperta ci nutriamo di vane speranze.”

“Congettura le cose che non appaiono da quelle che appaiono.”

Origine: Citato in I lirici greci, Bignami, p. 61.

“Se avete patito angherie per la vostra viltà non date in qualche cosa agli dei la colpa di queste.”

Origine: Citato in I lirici greci, Bignami, p. 48.

“Le leggi sono come ragnatele, che rimangono salde quando vi urta qualcosa di molle e leggero, mentre una cosa più grossa le sfonda e sfugge.”

Origine: Citato in I lirici greci, Bignami, p. 99.

“Source: Citato in I lirici greci, Bignami, p. 111.”

Attribuite

“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”

Invecchio imparando ogni giorno molte cose.
Γηράσκω δ'αεί πολλά διδασκόμενος.

Solone: Frasi in inglese

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“No fool can be silent at a feast.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I grow old ever learning many things.”

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

“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.”

Plutarch, Solon, ch. 31; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+31.1 <br class="br">Variant translation: As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

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

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

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

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