Alcaeus quotes
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“The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.”
-- AlcaeusSource : Alcæus, Fragment LXXXVI. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.
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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.”
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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.”
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“One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.”
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“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
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“Fighting men are the city's fortress”
-- AlcaeusSource : "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),
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“Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.”
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“Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.”
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