Solon/anecdotes

Famous quotes containing the words solon and/or anecdotes:

    “He will wish and desire to learn as long as he lives, as Solon says.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)