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All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
"Do not stop to be thrifty" -- I imagine that should be "Do not stop being thrifty"? "Master wedding-feasts" -- what does that mean? "Grieve for no one" seems odd.
I think this might be a mistranslation. Maxim #118 has the same last two words in Greek, and is translated as "Do not abandon honor". So #122 is probably better translated as "Do not abandon thrift", or "Do not forget to be thrifty", or something like that.
All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
I love the self-serving one - 'Admire Oracles'. Heh, and add 'deposit your wallet in the bin on your way out!'
That said, oracles were definitely not shy of making money.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The phrase is: "Ἐξ εὐγενῶν γέννα" Which roughly means "seek to become relatives with noble people" or alternatively "seek to create with noble ingredients"
Definitely the latter. One could almost paraphrase as “the ends reflect the means... therefore use noble means”
All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
"Master wedding-feasts" A maxim about Ancient Greek wedding crashers? "Admire oracles" - Ha ha! "Keep deeply the top secret" - how is this one simply baffling (per the article)? I'm not sure if they are referring to religious secrets or state secrets, but either way, how is encouraging people to keep secrets baffling?
"Master wedding-feasts" A maxim about Ancient Greek wedding crashers? "Admire oracles" - Ha ha! "Keep deeply the top secret" - how is this one simply baffling (per the article)? I'm not sure if they are referring to religious secrets or state secrets, but either way, how is encouraging people to keep secrets baffling?
Not just any secrets, though, but the singular top secret in particular.
Also, yes, it took the English language many years to come up with the pithier "Loose lips sink ships".
All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
I'm curious if anyone knows if there is a significant difference between #36 "Be (religiously) silent" and #115 "Exercise (religious) silence."
"Master wedding-feasts" A maxim about Ancient Greek wedding crashers? "Admire oracles" - Ha ha! "Keep deeply the top secret" - how is this one simply baffling (per the article)? I'm not sure if they are referring to religious secrets or state secrets, but either way, how is encouraging people to keep secrets baffling?
Not just any secrets, though, but the singular top secret in particular.
"Master wedding-feasts" A maxim about Ancient Greek wedding crashers? "Admire oracles" - Ha ha! "Keep deeply the top secret" - how is this one simply baffling (per the article)? I'm not sure if they are referring to religious secrets or state secrets, but either way, how is encouraging people to keep secrets baffling?