Delphic Maxims
Know yourself.
Nothing in excess.
Aid friends.
Control anger.
Shun unjust acts.
Ackowledge sacred things.
Hold on to learning.
Praise virtue.
Avoid enemies.
Cultivate kinsmen.
Pity supplicants.
Accomplish your limit.
When you err, repent.
Consider the time.
Worship the divine.
Accept old age.
Democritus
Do not be eager to know everything lest you become ignorant of everything.
A man of intelligence will, by foresight, set straight most everything in his life.
One must emulate the deeds and actions of virtue, not just the words.
One should refrain from wrong-doing not because of fear but because of duty.
One should choose not every pleasure but that concerned with the noble.
A father's temperateness is the greatest precept for his children.
For those brought up in self-sufficiency there are never any short nights.
The courageous are not only those who conquer their enemies but also those who are superior to pleasures: some men rule cities and are slaves to women.
Those who hate injustice are loved by the Gods.
It is better to examine your own mistakes than those of others.
A life without feasts is a long road without inns.
More men are good by practice than by nature.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine.
In truth, we know nothing, for truth lies in the depths.
Diogenes
I am looking for an honest man.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his pack with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."
When asked why he was called a Cynic [dog-like], he replied, "Because I confront people of evil and falsehood with truth, and tell them the truth about themselves. And I fawn on the good and growl in the faces of the bad."
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