Alexis Quotes
b. 288 BC Greece
Alexis (Ancient Greek: Ἄλεξις, Álexis; fl. 350s – 288 BC) was a Greek poet of Middle Comedy.
Also known as: Alexis (poet)
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For now my life is approaching its evening.
Fly pleasure, which at last brings loss.
His nose he anoints, and thinks it plain
'Tis good for health with scents to feed the brain.
For no long time the flatterer flourishes,
For none can brook a grey-haired parasite.
Not in vain oaths should prudent men believe,
But put their trust in actions.
Our life is like to dice, which ever fall
In varying combinations; no one form
Has man's existence, but 'tis full of change.
Of all thy blessings reckon wealth the least,
For 'tis the least secure of our possessions.
Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou be
Lord of thyself.
Though Fortune now be smiling, it behoves
To look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune.
Not of the mortals Sleep, nor of the immortals,
But blended of the two; thus nor with man
His heritage, nor with the gods.
Most wise men were agreed that it were best
Not to be born, but if that may not be,
Then with the least delay to reach the goal.
Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set,
Advantage by the friendly Distance get.
The nature of man is in some respects very much resembling wine. For, like new wine, the youthful mind requries to have its fermentation thrown off, and its roughness skimmed; but when its excessive violence has abated, and the fury, which swam on the top, has disappeared, then it becomes drinkable, and settles down, continuing pleasant to all future time.
Discovery attends on every quest,
Except for renegades who shirk the toil.
Now certain men have pushed discovery
Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know,—
How planets rise and set and wheel about,
And of the sun’s eclipse. If men have probed
Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth,
This common home to which we’re born, defy them?