On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 10:15:09 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 5:41:32 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 19:03:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word
is love.
-- Sophocles

Sophocles is three or four hundred years ago BC, cave man thinking, right?
Cave mannish thoughts mean they aren't modern. A lot like most big
restaurant and hospitality chains seem to think that the favorite
foods don't include mango, tamarind, guava or papaya. For some
reason.

Actually, Sophocles wasn't a philosopher, he was a playwright and for
almost 50 years he was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic
competitions of the city-state of Athens.

One of his more erudite quotes is: "Hide nothing, for time, which sees
all and hears all, exposes all."

Sophocles was a major critic of the first democracy (in Athens Greece). I guess that philosophy is only a "sometimes" state-of-mind.

If you are talking about Solon, he died in 558 BC

Sophocles served as one of the treasurers of Athena during the
political ascendancy of Pericles (ruled Athens approximately 461 to
429 BC) and he was elected one of the ten generals, executive
officials at Athens, as a junior colleague of Pericles, and he served
in the Athenian campaign against Samos.
--
cheers,

John B.