Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, 'Forgiveness is better than revenge.'.Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.Chilo advised, 'not to speak evil of the dead.'.As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, 'Nothing in excess.'.Solon gave the following advice: 'Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.that laws were like cobwebs,-for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions.Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.Compare' 'There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life: 'Know thyself', and 'Nothing too much' and upon these all other precepts depend', Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius. He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one’s self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'.'Why, then,' said some one to him, 'do not you die?' 'Because,' said he, 'it does make no difference.' Thales said there was no difference between life and death.’T is money makes the man and he who ’s none Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:.Quotes The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers ( c. 1.1.9 Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics.1.1.8 Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.1.1.2 Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers.1.1 The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers ( c.

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