WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:28:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Anacharsis – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Anacharsis -- in Plutarch, “The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men” https://wist.info/anacharsis/1373/ https://wist.info/anacharsis/1373/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1373 A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.


Anacharsis (fl. 6th C BC) Scythian traveler and philosopher
in Plutarch, “The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men” ]]> https://wist.info/anacharsis/1373/feed/ 0 1373 Anacharsis -- In Plutarch’s Parallel Lives “Solon” bk. 5, sec. 2. https://wist.info/anacharsis/1374/ https://wist.info/anacharsis/1374/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1374 Written laws are like spider’s webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.


Anacharsis (fl. 6th C BC) Scythian traveler and philosopher
In Plutarch’s Parallel Lives “Solon” bk. 5, sec. 2.

Alt trans.: "These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth." [tr. by R. Waterfield, Plutarch's Greek Lives (1998)] ]]> https://wist.info/anacharsis/1374/feed/ 0 1374