Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
"Solon" was an Classical Athens/Athenian wikt:statesman/statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in Archaic period in Greece/archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous statesmen! More Solon on Wikipedia.Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
I grow old ever learning many things.
No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Speech is the image of actions.
No fool can be silent at a feast.
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Learn to obey before you command.
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