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Alcaeus
Greek
Poet
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Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Alcaeus,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Wine
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,
Greek
Poet
#Thinking
#Sense
#Pain
#Folly
#Grief
#Drinking
#Melancholy
'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Alcaeus,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Old
#Wrath
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,
Greek
Poet
#Men
#Opportunity
#Houses