Alcaeus Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Famous Quotes by Alcaeus
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“Fighting men are the city's fortress.”
War Quotes
Source: Fragment (XXII)
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Wine is a peep-hole on a man.”
Miscellaneous Quotes