Clement of Alexandria: STROMATA (MISCELLANIES), Part IV, Complete

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Augias composed the line:--

"For gifts men's mind and acts deceive."

And Hesiod having said:--

"Than a good wife, no man a better thing

Ere gained; than a bad wife, a worse,"--

Simonides said:--

"A better prize than a good wife no man

Ere gained, than a bad one nought worse."

Again, Epicharmas having said:--

"As destined long to live, and yet not long,

Think of thyself."--

Euripides writes:--

"Why? seeing the wealth we have uncertain is,

Why don't we live as free from care, as pleasant

As we may?"

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