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Famous Theocritus Quotes
“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”
Source: The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And the Elegies of Tyrtaeus
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
“Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.”
“The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.”
Source: Theocritus
“The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.”
Source: idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”
“Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.”
Source: A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus
“Trying will do anything in this world.”
Source: The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus
“Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.”
Source: The Idylliums of Theocritus
“For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.”