“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
The Artist's Way (1992), p. xxv
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
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Hesiod
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book
Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
Original
Οὐ μὲν γάρ τι γυναικὸς ἀνὴρ ληίζετ᾽ ἄμεινον τῆς ἀγαθῆς, τῆς δ᾽ αὖτε κακῆς οὐ ῥίγιον ἄλλο.
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