“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse”
— Ryōkan
As translated in Haiku : Spring (1950) by Reginald Horace Blyth
Context: In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
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