"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
(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. |
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