(Selected moral wisdom from classical and ancient pagan traditions, emphasizing honor, hospitality, and truth.)
Echoes of Ancient Morality
On Hospitality (The Havamal - Norse Wisdom)
"Fire he needs who with frozen knees has come from the cold without; food and clothes must the farer have, the man who has come from the mountains. Water he needs who has found his way, drying and dainty meats, and a kindly welcome."
On Oaths and Truth (The Havamal)
"I advise you, secondly, to swear no oath unless it be deeply true. Cruel is the fate of the oath-breaker; the wolf of truth shall bite him."
On Harmony and Limit (The Delphic Maxims - Ancient Greece)
"Know thyself. Nothing to excess. Respect the gods. Honor your parents. Pity the unfortunate. Do not use a false oath. Return a favor."
On the Circle of Life (Celtic Proverb)
"As the sap flows upward, life reaches to the sun; as the leaf falls downward, it nourishes the roots. What is taken from the earth must be returned with honor."
On Justice (Ancient Rome - Cicero on Natural Law)
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions."
"Even before the Law was written on stone, the Creator inscribed its echoes into the conscience of humanity."