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7.32 CHAP. 32. (32.)—PRECEPTS THE MOST USEFUL IN LIFE.

Again, men have placed on an equality with those of the oracles the precepts uttered by Chilon, [Note] the Lacedæmonian. These have been consecrated at Delphi in letters of gold, and are to the following effect: "That each person ought to know himself, and not to desire to possess too much;" [Note] and "That misery is the sure companion of debt and litigation." He died of

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joy, on hearing that his son had been victorious in the Olympic games, and all Greece assisted at his funeral rites.



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