Solon Quote

Quote from Solon,

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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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:

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

Categories:

God, Government, Oppression, Proverbs, Responsibility, Slavery, Vice

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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:	Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.
Categories:	God, Government, Oppression, Proverbs, Responsibility, Slavery, Vice
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