I have seen cities torn asunder by the strife between the rich and the poor, where power is a club wielded by the few....

I have seen how a state is torn apart by strife when power is the sole property of the high-born, regardless of their virtue...

A city is like a great ship, and each family is a plank in its hull. If the planks are rotten or ill-fitted, the...

I was called upon to serve Athens when she stood on the very brink of civil war, torn between the wealthy and the poor....

I have seen laws, even the best of them, carved in stone and wood only to be forgotten or ignored by those they are...

I have seen a city tear itself apart over debt and land. A community cannot prosper when a man fears his neighbor more than...

A community, like a ship, is tossed by the storm of human conflict. Without a firm hand on the rudder of justice, it will...

Before a single stone is laid for a wall or a field is plowed for a crop, a community must first lay its foundation...

I am Solon. When I was called to lead Athens, our city was sick with division, the poor enslaved to the rich by chains...