Seven Sages of Greece

Mosaïc of the Seven Sages, Baalbeck, 3rd century A.D., National Museum of Beirut. Calliope at the center, and clockwise from top: Socrates, Chilon, Pittacus, Periander, Cleobulus (damaged section), Bias, Thales, and Solon.

The Seven Sages of Greece or Seven Wise Men (Greek: οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί hoi hepta sophoi) was the title given by classical Greek tradition to seven philosophers, statesmen, and law-givers of the 6th century BC who were renowned for their wisdom.

Quotes

Know thyself.
- Inscription at the Delphic Oracle. From Plutarch, Morals

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.^[1]
- Periander. From Plutarch, The Banquet of th Seven Wise Men, sec. 14

Every one of you hath his paritcular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only.
- Pittacus. From Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, sec. 14

Nothing too much.
- From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. 1, sec. 63

Do not speak ill of the dead.^[2]
- From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 70

Know the right moment.^[3]
- From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 79

Rule will show the man.
- Bias. From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 5, ch. 1

Notes

↑ Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - François Rabelais, Works, bk. V[1552], ch. 28
↑ The Latin form: De mortuis nil nisi bonum [Of the dead, nothing but good].
↑ Occasionem cognosce.

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[1] Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - François Rabelais, Works, bk. V[1552], ch. 28

[2] The Latin form: De mortuis nil nisi bonum [Of the dead, nothing but good].

[3] Occasionem cognosce.

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