Quotes from Theognis of Megara

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

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

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

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

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.