“For gifts men’s mind and acts deceive.”
And Hesiod having said:
“Than a good wife, no man a better thing
Ere gained; than a bad wife, a worse,”—
Simonides said:
“A better prize than a good wife no man
Ere gained, than a bad one nought worse.”
Again, Epicharmas having said:
“As destined long to live, and yet not long,
Think of thyself,”—