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Semonides of Amorgos Quotes

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Semonides of Amorgos (Greek: Σημωνίδης or Σιμωνίδης; fl. 7th century BC) was a Greek iambic and elegiac poet who is believed to have lived during the seventh century BC. Fragments of his poetry survive as quotations in other ancient authors, the most extensive and well known of which is a satiric account of different types of women which is often cited in discussions of misogyny in Archaic Greece.

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In the beginning God made woman’s mind apart from man’s.

Were he to die we should not take it to heart, if we were wise, for more than a single day.

There's none alive but thinketh he will come home winged with wealth and good things next year; yet one of us ere he reach his goal is taken with unenvied Age, another's mind is wasted by miserable Disease, or Death sendeth him below dark Earth whelmed by War.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Semonides of Amorgos (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.