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Theognis
17 quotes
“Wine is wont to show the mind of man.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Exiles feed on hope.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Success is man's god.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source