All the way from the Oracle at the home office in Delphi Greece, here are your Top 10 Lessons Every Hellenic Needs to Learn:
10. Share everything: Give back what you have received, and share the load of the unfortunate. Give what you have.
9. Play fair: Make just judgments, deal kindly with everyone, and be jealous of no one. Obey the law.
8. Don’t hit people: Control yourself, control anger, and shun murder. Down-look no one, speak well of everyone, but despise a slanderer. Keep yourself from insolence.
7. Clean up your own mess: Gratify without harming, and do not begin to be insolent. Venture into danger prudently, but do not abandon honor. Act when you know.
6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours: Shun what belongs to others, and gain possessions justly. Control the eye, and acquire wealth justly. Work for what you can own.
5. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody: If you are a stranger act like one, and be kind to friends. Choose what is divine, and repent of sins.
4. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you: Be fond of fortune, and pray for happiness. Benefit yourself, and do not be discontented by life. Be grateful.
3. Live a balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and play and work some everyday: Know what you have learned, and be a seeker of wisdom. Pursue harmony, and do not tire of learning.
2. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together: Respect your parents, intend to get married, and educate your [children]. Help your friends, and associate with your peers. Guard and love friendship.
…and the #1 lesson every Hellenic needs to learn…
1. Take a nap every afternoon: Live together meekly, and do away with enmities. Nothing to excess.
* This list was compiled by combining portions of Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Ballantine Books, 15th Revised Edition, 2004) with portions of the Maxims of Delphi handed down by the Seven Sages of Greece.
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