Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.” ~ Chilon of Sparta Chilon of Sparta (Χίλων) was a Lacedaemonian, son of Damagetus and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. He was elected an ephor in Sparta in 556/5 BC