The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
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 … - Theognis Of Megara
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 …
- Theognis Of Megara
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence. - Theognis Of Megara
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons. - Theognis Of Megara
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… - Theognis Of Megara
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…
Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins ! - Theognis Of Megara
Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !
Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself. - Theognis Of Megara
Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. - Theognis Of Megara
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. - Theognis Of Megara
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. - Theognis Of Megara
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
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