{"id":3541,"date":"2012-10-01T06:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:22:27","slug":"sage-counsel-from-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3541","title":{"rendered":"Sage Counsel from Ancient Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?attachment_id=3542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3542\" title=\"Seven Sages of Greece\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Seven-Sages-of-Greece-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Seven-Sages-of-Greece-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Seven-Sages-of-Greece-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Seven-Sages-of-Greece.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seven Sages of Greece (c. 620 BC\u2013550 BC) is the title given to seven ancient Greek philosophers, statesmen and law-makers who were internationally renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom. \u00a0Traditionally, each of the seven sages represents an aspect of worldly wisdom which is summarized by an aphorism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the wise men and their timeless counsel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruler Cleobulus of Lindos:\u00a0 &#8220;Moderation is the best thing.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?attachment_id=3542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3542\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lawmaker Solon of Athens:\u00a0 &#8220;Keep everything with moderation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Politician Chilon of Sparta: &#8220;You should not desire the impossible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Legislator Bias of Priene:\u00a0 &#8220;Most men are bad.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Philosopher Thales of Miletus:\u00a0 \u201cKnow Thyself\u201d (engraved on the front fa\u00e7ade of the Oracle of Apollo in Delphi.<\/li>\n<li>Ruler Pittacus of Mytilene:\u00a0 &#8220;You should know which opportunities to choose.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ruler Periander of Corinth:\u00a0 &#8220;Be farsighted with everything.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seven Sages of Greece (c. 620 BC\u2013550 BC) is the title given to seven ancient Greek philosophers, statesmen and law-makers who were internationally renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom. \u00a0Traditionally, each of the seven sages represents an aspect of worldly wisdom which is summarized by an aphorism. &nbsp; Here are the wise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[73,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}