solon

Seek to learn constantly while you live

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.

America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers__oses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left__n the monument to __ustice, the Guardian of Liberty_ displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.