Consequently while he was still young he devoted himself to trade but some say that Solon traveled as widely as he did more for the sake of experience and to acquire friends than for money-making. It is certainly agreed by all that he was a lover of knowledge and as he himself wrote when he was older, Even as I grow old I am teaching myself 3. He was not fascinated by wealth and wrote that equally rich are . In man's prime these are delightful. I will not.
Later justice comes to all.
Many evil men are rich and many good men poor. At first he seems to have taken up poetry for no serious purpose but as an amusement and as a means of diverting himself in his spare time. Later, however, he included philosophical ideas and mixed in many of his political ideas in the poems, not simply to record them or to remember them but to justify his actions. In some places these ideas are appeals and proposals and exhortations to the Athenians. First let us pray to Lord Zeus, son of Kronos, to give good fortune and glory to these laws.