danaus's

Updated: July 27, 2025

And when we solicitously inquire beforehand what we should do or how we should employ ourselves if we had not such care and business to take up our time, this is as if Danaus's daughters should trouble their heads to know what they should do if they had no sieves to fill with water. We drudge and toil for necessaries, for want of better and nobler occupation.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies