"Do not counsel what is most pleasant, but what is best."
— Solon

January 1, 1970

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Demetrius of Phalerum, "Apophthegms of the Seven Sages," in Early Greek Philosophy, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library, volume 525), p. 141