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Delphic Maxims

Book 1, Line 54 by Muses' Whisper rendering (English)

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English rendered for Muses' Whisper from the Greek of Sosiades (Stobaeus 3.1.173), after F. W. A. Mullach, Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, vol. I (Paris, 1860).