<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fragments - Lines 0183 - 0192</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among rams and asses and horses, Kyrnos, we look for those<br> Of noble breeding, and a man wants them to mate<br>From worthy stock. Yet a noble man does not mind marrying<br> A base woman of base birth if she brings him money in abundance,<br>Nor does a woman shrink from becoming the wife of a base man<br> With wealth; she prefers a rich husband to a worthy one.<br>Money is what they honor; the noble weds a base man's daughter,<br> The base a worthy man's: wealth mixes stock.<br>Thus do not be amazed, son of Polypaos, that the citizen's stock<br> Is growing feeble, for what is noble is being mixed with what is base.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theognis">Theognis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529075" data-title="Fragments - Lines 0183 - 0192 de Theognis" data-description="Among rams and asses and horses, Kyrnos, we look for those Of noble breeding, and a man wants them to mate From worthy stock. Yet a noble man does not mind marrying A base woman of base birth if she brings him money in abundance, Nor does a woma..."></div> </div> </div>

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