“Too many tongues have gates which fly apart
Too easily, and care for many things
That don’t concern them.”

—  Theognis of Megara

Source: Elegies, Lines 421-423, 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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