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“May the god who uses you well not weary of it.”
-Bacchýlides of Ceos, ‘Olympian Ode for Híeron (Horse Race)’

“War is sweet to those who have not tried it.”
-Pindar of Thebes

“And even after you pass to the gloom and the secret chambers of sorrow, Death's house hidden under the ground, even in death your memory shall not pass, and it shall not die, but always, a name and a song in the minds of men… So long as earth endures and sun endures, you shall be.”
-Theógnis of Mégara

“Fate brings humanity her good; she brings him her evil; and what the gods give us for gifts no man can refuse.”
-Solon of Athens, ‘Prayer to the Muses’

“no one day goes by from end to end enjoyable, when you have spent it with your wife… at home, when a man thinks that, by god’s grace or by men’s good will, there’ll be peace for him and all go well, she finds some fault and starts a fight.”

ah yes, the (literally) ancient theme of ‘i hate my bitch wife’

reading “But if he completes ten ages of seven years each, full measure, death, when it comes, can no longer be said to come too soon.” after saying goodbye to my 10 year old dog hits different

read bits and pieces of this for a class, it was good!