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Quote from Solon,

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor;
But we will not exchange with them
Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always,
While riches change their owners every day.




By:

Solon (more quotes by Solon or books by/about Solon)


(c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece

Date:

550 B.C.

Source:

Plutarch Solon, ch. 3; translation by Bernadotte Perrin.

Categories:

Integrity, Poverty, Virtue, Wealth

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