Solon
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 17 instances of Solon in 11 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Solon in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 6.
Our Attachments Outlive Us last place in rank. Aristotle, who looks into all things, wonders about Solon’s statement∗ that no one can be called happy while still alive—even though …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death Croesus who, taken prisoner by Cyrus and condemned to die, cried “O Solon! Solon!” as he was about to be executed. After someone told Cyrus …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death him that he was finding, at great personal cost, that the warning Solon had once given him was true: No matter how much fortune smiled …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 5.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death We would be right, then, to listen to Solon’s warning. I’m not surprised that, being a philosopher, one to whom the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 2.
On Cannibals we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind. Plato brings in Solon, telling a story that he had heard from the priests of Sais …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 48.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children these are immortal children that immortalize and deify their fathers, as Lycurgus, Solon, Minos. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 595.
Apology for Raymond Sebond of air fit to make men prudent, as the Egyptian priests told Solon, Athenis tenue cælum, ex quo etiam acutiores putantur Attici; crassum Thebis itaque …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 629.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Solon, being lectured by his friends not to shed powerless and unprofitable tears …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 66.
On Glory Lycurgus, legislator of the Lacedaemonians, under that of Apollo; and Draco and Solon, legislators of the Athenians, under that of Minerva. And every government has …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 28.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers I have, as that mutton nourishes me, and wine warms me: and Solon said “that eating was physic against the malady hunger.” I do not …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 77.
On Some Verses of Virgil at such a rate, considering the divers judgments of our appetites? for Solon, master of the law school, taxes us but at three a month, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 150.
On Some Verses of Virgil any one that would, for money thereby to gain his living: and Solon was the first in Greece, ’tis said, who by his laws gave …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 37.
On Coaches And the narrative of Solon, of what he had learned from the Egyptian priests, touching the long …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 53.
On Vanity hardly writhe it from its wonted bent, but we shall break all. Solon being asked whether he had established the best laws he could for …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 66.
On Vanity look upon what is above, than willingly upon what is below; and Solon was used to say, that “whoever would make a heap of all …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 186.
On Vanity any miraculous conversion in it that makes them thus wavering; ’tis that Solon represents himself, sometimes in his own person, and sometimes in that of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 125.
On Experience had, as greater stature, so, longer lives, but they deceive themselves; and Solon, who was of those elder times, limits the duration of life to …