Cleobulos is one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, a collective of rulers, thinkers and profoundly wise individuals who helped shape the world of Archaic Greece. Cleobulos was born and ruled in Lindos, a city-state in the Greek island of Rhodes.
All the Quotes of Cleobulos of Lindos:
- Everything in moderation.
- Respect your father.
- Maintain your body and mind in good order.
- Like to listen and not say too much.
- It is best to know many different things than to be ignorant.
- You should only speak in respectful terms.
- Be a friend to virtue, and a stranger to vice.
- Hate injustice.
- Be always respectful.
- To your co-citizens always advise the best.
- Master pleasure.
- Never do anything with violence.
- Educate your children.
- Pray to fortune.
- Destroy enmities.
- Consider as your enemy, the enemy of the people.
- Do not fight with your wife and do not behave with arrogance in front of others. The first shows mainly stupidity, while the second may make others consider you to be a crazy man.
- Do not punish drunk slaves otherwise you will too seem to be drunk.
- Marry from your own social level because if the wife (or husband) is from a higher social level, you will acquire bosses, not relatives.
- Do not laugh aloud when a man mocks others, because you will draw upon yourself the hate of those who are being mocked.
- If you are rich, do not feel proud. If you are poor, do not feel meek.
- We must gratify our enemy so that he/she becomes our friend.
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