Alcaeus Quotes

• Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

  Alcaeus

  Wine, Men, Holes

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• Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Wrath, Lasts

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• Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Cities, Brave

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• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

  Alcaeus

  Pain, Drinking, Grief

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Opportunity, Men

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• Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

  Alcaeus

  Tree, Vines, Plant

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• Fighting men are the city's fortress.

  Alcaeus

  Fighting, Men, Cities

  "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

  Alcaeus

  Wine, Chains, Wit

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• The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

  Alcaeus

  Chestnuts, Arcadia

  Alcæus, Fragment LXXXVI. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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