Anacreon quotes
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“Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.”
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“Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.”
-- AnacreonSource : Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.189
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“My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.”
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“Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.”
-- AnacreonSource : Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.193
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“Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.”
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“I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.”
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“And last of all comes death.”
-- AnacreonSource : "Odes" by Anacreon, L. (XL VIII.), 28,
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“He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.”
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“Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.”
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“Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.”
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