Alcaeus Quotes
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Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.
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Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
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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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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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One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
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Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
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The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
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Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
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Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
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