Frases de Teognis de Megara
Teognis de Megara
Fecha de nacimiento: 600
Teognis de Megara fue un poeta del siglo VI a. C. partidario del código de valores individualista y aristocrático. Ante las inminentes guerras médicas, proponía el carpe diem: no consideraba la guerra como un asunto patriótico, sino como una fastidiosa interrupción de la vida cotidiana.
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Frases Teognis de Megara
„Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock.“
— Theognis of Megara
Context: 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.
Line 215.
„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.
„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
„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.
