Theognis Quotes & Sayings

Give me a man who understands my moods, who brother-like, understands my grouchiness. If you will give your mind to what I say, dear friend, you will remember me one day. — Theognis

I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry
and whose arrival announces to men the season when fields
are plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,
since other men posess my flourishing acres now,
and not for me are the mules dragging the plow through the grainland,
since I have given my heart to the restless seafarer's life. — Theognis

Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert. — Theognis

What is beautiful is loved, and what is not is unloved. — Theognis

Happy the lover who exercises, then
Goes home to sleep all day with a handsome boy. — Theognis

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad — Theognis