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
'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Alcaeus
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
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Alcaeus
Related Authors
Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Pindar, Aristophanes, Menander, Homer, Hesiod, Giorgos Seferis
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Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: Greek
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