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When Chilon came to Delphi he thought to dedicate to the god the firstlings, as it
were, of his own wisdom, and engraved upon a column these three maxims: "Know thyself";
"Nothing overmuch"; and the third, "A pledge, and ruin is nigh." Each of these maxims, though
short and laconic,Chilon was a Spartan (Laconian) ephor in 556
B.C. displays deep reflection. For the maxim "Know
thyself" exhorts us to become educated and to get prudence, it being only by these means that a
man may come to know himself, either because it is chiefly those who are uneducated and
thoughtless that think themselves to be very sagacious—and that, according to Plato,
is of all kinds of ignorance the worstThe ignorance,
Plato would say, that mistakes itself for knowledge.—or because such people
consider wicked men to be virtuous, and honest men, on the contrary, to be of no account; for
only in this one way may a man know himself and his neighbour—by getting<