Comfortable Mediocrity

The wealth of gold-abounding Croisos
Is no concern to me;
Ambition offers no temptation;
From envy I am free.
The gods' affairs I do not question;
No monarch would I be,
I am content, where'er I'm sent,
With mediocrity.
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Archilochus
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