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Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. - Theognis of Megara
" "Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
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About Theognis of Megara
Theognis of Megara (fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet. More than half of the elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the 1,400 lines ascribed to Theognis.
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Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς
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