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Diogenes Laërtius
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Another was, "Watch your opportunity."
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Pittacus, 7.
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One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."
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Pittacus, 4.
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Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
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Pittacus, 3.
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Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.
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Pittacus, 2.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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Chilo, 2.
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As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."
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Solon, 16.
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Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."
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Solon, 12.
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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Solon, 10.
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Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
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Thales, 14.
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The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.
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Thales, 13. Compare" "There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life: 'Know thyself', and 'Nothing too much'; and upon these all other precepts depend", Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius.
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