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556 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
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<
279 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
356 BC - 346 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Persia (Iran) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Pytho (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
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
on with contracts and with agreements on other matters, all of which are concerned
with money. As Euripides says:
No pledge I give, observing well the loss
Which those incur who of the pledge are fond;
And writings there at Pytho say me nay.
Eur. fr. 923 [Nauck(2)]
But some also say that it is
not the meaning of Chilon nor is it the act of a good
citizen, not to come to the aid of a friend when he needs help of this kind; but rather that he
advise
Plataeae (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Chilon (Chiapas, Mexico) (search for this): book 9, chapter 10
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 10
Pythagoras called the principles he taught
philosophia or love of wisdom, but not sophia or wisdom. For he
criticized the Seven Wise Men, as they were called, who lived before his time, saying that no
man is wise, being human, and many a time, by reason of the weakness of his nature, has not the
strength to bring all matters to a successful issue, but that he who emulates both the ways and
the manner of life of a wise man may more fittingly be called a "lover of wisdom." Although both Pythagoras himself and the
Pythagoreans after his time made such advancement and were cause of so great blessings to the
states of Greece, yet they did not escape the envy
which besmirches all noble things. Indeed there is no noble thing among men, I suppose, which
is of such a nature that the long passage of time works it no damage or destruction.Const. Exc. 4, p. 296.