Sappho
(said to have flourished in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE)
“Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture is
The summit of beatitude.”
- From a poem fragment known variously as “Fragment 148” or “Wealth without real worthiness,” included in Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, translated and introduced by Aaron Poochigian. Penguin Classics, 2009.
