<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529081" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fragments - Lines 0429 - 0438</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To beget and rear a man is easier than to put good sense<br> Inside him. No one yet has ever contrived a way<br>To make the senseless sensible and good men out of bad.<br> If the sons of Asklepios had this gift from the god,<br>To work a cure on badness and men's infatuate wits,<br> Many and great would be the fees they earned.<br>And if understanding could be fashioned and placed in a man,<br> Never would a good man's son have turned out bad,<br>By heeding the words of sensible counsel. But as it is, no teaching<br> Will ever serve to make the bad man good.</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=529081" data-title="Fragments - Lines 0429 - 0438 de Theognis" data-description="To beget and rear a man is easier than to put good sense Inside him. No one yet has ever contrived a way To make the senseless sensible and good men out of bad. If the sons of Asklepios had this gift from the god, To work a cure on badness and m..."></div> </div> </div>

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