Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... … - Diogenes Laërtius

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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Diogenes Laërtius

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Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 3rd century AD), was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers. His Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in ten books, is still extant and is an important source of information on the development of Greek philosophy. The period when he lived is not exactly known, but it is supposed to have been during the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.

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Native Name: Διογένης ὁ Λαέρτιος

Alternative Names: Diogenes Laertius

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Euripides says,—
Who knows but that this life is really death,
And whether death is not what men call life?

The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, t… - Diogenes Laërtius

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