Theognis of Megara famous quotes

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Children #Parenting #Greatest Treasure

Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the best men make no argument, But wed, for money, runts of poor descent. So too a woman will demean her state And spurn the better for the richer mate. Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred. No wonder if the country's breed declines- Mixed metal, Kyrnos, that but dimly shines.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Country #Horse #Men

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Trust #Ethics #Should

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Understood

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Would Be #Being The Best

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Disrespect #Prosperity

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Giving #Excellence

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Youth

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !
-- Theognis of Megara

#Worship You #Wonder #Sin

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Mind #Tongue #Mildness

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Care #Tongue #Concern

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Business #Men #Cooking

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Death #Dying #Bed

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Revenge #Anger #Passion

Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Character #Rocks #Octopus

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Mind #Deceiving

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Men #Doors #Tongue

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Horse #Spring #Boys