Solon's Interview with Croesus, king of Lydia

Oliver Goldsmith continues (History of Greece):

"Solon's interview with Croesus, king of Lydia, is still more celebrated. This monarch, who was reputed the richest of all Asia Minor, was willing to make an ostentatious display of his wealth before the Greek philosopher; and, after showing him immense heaps of treasure, and the greatest variety of other ornaments, he demanded whether he did not think the possessor the most happy of all mankind. No, replied Solon: I know one man more happy; a poor peasant of Greece, who, neither in affluence nor poverty, has but few wants, and has learned to supply them with his labour."