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„The lucky man is honored...
But earnest striving wins no praise at all.“
— Theognis of Megara
Lines 169-170, as translated by Dorothea Wender.
„No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth.“
— Theognis of Megara
Line 725, comparable to: "For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him", Psalm xlix, 17.
„Don’t wag the tail of life if it goes well,
But leave in undisturbed. If it should go
Badly, rock it until it straightens up.“
— Theognis of Megara
Lines 303-305, as translated by Dorothea Wender.
„We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,
For a result unknown and undesign’d;
Avoiding seeming ills, misunderstood,
Embracing evil as a seeming good.“
— Theognis of Megara
Lines 137-139, as translated by J. Banks, The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis (1856), p. 464 http://books.google.com/books?id=QqFaP-4DExEC&pg=PA464
