Феогнид цитаты

„Мне ненавистны жена-непоседа и муж ненасытный,
Любящий плугом своим ненасытным пашню чужую пахать.“

„Вечно прекрасное мило, а что не прекрасно — не мило.“

„Вино, если его пить не в меру, и неблагоразумного, и мудрого человека делает одинаково легкомысленными…“

„Различным образом испытывай нрав друзей, особенно же смотри, каков кто во гневе.“

„Несообразно жене молодой принадлежать мужу старому, ибо подобно человеку, привязанному к кораблю, она не может сообразоваться с движениями кормы и, не имея под собою якоря, оторвав веревки, часто по ночам находит другую пристань…“

“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock.”

Феогнид: Цитаты на английском языке

“One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are few.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 215.
Контексте: 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.

“Ploutos, no wonder mortals worship you:
You are so tolerant of their sins!”

Источник: Elegies, Line 115.

“The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 523-524, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

“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.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 425-428.

“Unless the gods deceive my mind,
That man is forging fetters for himself.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 303-305, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

“Wine is wont to show the mind of man.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 539-540, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

“Too many tongues have gates which fly apart
Too easily, and care for many things
That don’t concern them.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 500.

“Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 421-423, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

“Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 153.

“The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 985.

“Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 667

“No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 149-150

“The lucky man is honored …
But earnest striving wins no praise at all.”

Источник: Elegies, Line 725, comparable to: "For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him", Psalm xlix, 17.

“We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,
For a result unknown and undesign’d;
Avoiding seeming ills, misunderstood,
Embracing evil as a seeming good.”

Источник: Elegies, Lines 169-170, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

“Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor. But we will not exchange wealth for virtue along with them. One man has money now, another has money at another time. Money goes around, whereas virtue endures.”

Источник: Elegies, 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