Anacreon Quotes

• Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

  Anacreon

  Love, Money, Brother

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• Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

  Anacreon

  Love, And Love, Vain

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• War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

  Anacreon

  War, Brave, Spares

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• Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

  Anacreon

  Wish, May, Today

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• To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

  Anacreon

  Today, Morrow

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• How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

  Anacreon

  Kissing, Sea, Wave

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• I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

  Anacreon

  Love, Mad

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• Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

  Anacreon

  Life, Wheels, Chariots

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• Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

  Anacreon

  War, Lying, Wine

  Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.189

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• He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.

  Anacreon

  Healing, Fighting, Mind

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• Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

  Anacreon

  Wine, Divine, Transport

  Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.193

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• For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
  Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
  Let us drink the juice divine,
  The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
  When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

  Anacreon

  Wine, Sleep, Soul

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• My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

  Anacreon

  Passion, Wine, And Love

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• The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

  Anacreon

  Air, Sea, Sun

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• And last of all comes death.

  Anacreon

  Death, Lasts

  "Odes" by Anacreon, L. (XL VIII.), 28,

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