“Unless the gods deceive my mind,
That man is forging fetters for himself.”

— Theognis of Megara

Source: Elegies, Lines 539-540, as translated by Dorothea Wender.

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Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century … -570–-485 BC

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