Don't let your tongue outrun your mind.
Chilon, Diogenes Laertius 1.70
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"Don't let your tongue outrun your mind." Chilon said it in Diogenes Laertius 1.70. Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.
"τὴν γλῶτταν μὴ προτρέχειν τοῦ νοῦ."Original Greek, Diogenes Laertius 1.70. Greek: Hicks 1925 Loeb text via Perseus.
The Spartans (8th–4th century BC). Laconic sayings from Lycurgus, Leonidas, Dienekes and the mothers of Sparta, recorded by Herodotus and Plutarch.
Don't let your tongue outrun your mind.
Chilon, Diogenes Laertius 1.70
Filed under Laconic.
Dienekes, Herodotus, Histories 7.226
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Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women 241f
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Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women, Anonymous 18 (241f)
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Leonidas, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Leonidas 7 (225b)
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