Seven Sages of Greece



The  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.
 * 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.
 * From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 70


 * Know the right moment.
 * From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1, 79


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