"Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength, up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears. Give no ground; and if you beat them, do not brag in open show, nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry. Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you give way to sorrow. All our life is up-and-down like this."

": Fragment 67, as translated by R. Lattimore"

"Soul, my soul, don't let them break you, all these troubles. Never yield: though their force is overwhelming, up! attack them shield to shield..."

": "Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis"

"Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years."

"Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains."

"Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men."

"I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me."

": Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Vol. 20 (2001), p. 184"

"I have a high art; I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me."

": Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior (2003) edited by John D. Moore"

"ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει."

"πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα"

""Old women should not seek to be perfumed" (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, first ebook edition, 2014)"

"Summa in hoc vis elocutionis, cum validae tum breves vibrantesque sententiae, plurimum sanguinis atque nervorum, adeo ut videatur quibusdam quod quoquam minor est materiae esse, non ingeni vitium."

"There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog's one defence. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general. For there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, universal, organizing principle in terms of which alone all that they are and say has significance — and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... Their thought is scattered or diffused, moving on many levels, seizing upon the essence of a vast variety of experiences and objects for what they are in themselves, without, consciously or unconsciously, seeking to fit them into, or exclude them from any one unchanging, all-embracing, sometimes self-contradictory and incomplete, at times fanatical, unitary inner vision. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes; and without insisting on a rigid classification, we may, without too much fear of contradiction, say that, in this sense, Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second."

"Archilochos was both poet and mercenary. As a poet he was both satirist and lyricist. Iambic verse is his invention. He wrote the first beast fable known to us. He wrote marching songs, love lyrics of frail tenderness, elegies. But most of all he was what Meleager calls him, "a thistle with graceful leaves." There is a tradition that wasps hover around his grave. To the ancients, both Greek and Roman, he was The Satirist. We have what grammarians quote to illustrate a point of dialect or interesting use of the subjunctive; we have brief quotations by admiring critics; and we have papyrus fragments, scrap paper from the households of Alexandria, with which third-class mummies were wrapped and stuffed. All else is lost. Horace and Catullus, like all cultivated readers, had Archilochos complete in their libraries. Even in the tattered version we have of Archilochos … the extraordinary form of his mind is discernible. Not all poets can be so broken and still compel attention. Archilochos kept his "two services" in an unlikely harmony. Ares did not complain that this ash-spear fighter wrote poems, and the Muses have heard everything and did not mind that their horsetail-helmeted servant sometimes spoke with the vocabulary of a paratrooper sergeant, though the high-minded Spartans banned Archilochos's poems for their mockery of uncritical bravery. And the people of his native Paros made it clear, when they honored him with a monument, that they thought him a great poet in spite of his nettle tongue."

"Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine."

"The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s."

"Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words."

"Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad."

"Another was, "Watch your opportunity.""

"One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.""

"Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.""

"Pittacus said that half was more than the whole."

"Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.""

"As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.""

"Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance.""

"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."

"Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors."

"The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his."

"He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present."

"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one’s self." And what was easy, "To advise another.""

"Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference.""

"Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:— ’T is money makes the man; and he who ’s none Is counted neither good nor honourable."

"Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down.""

"Euripides says,— Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?"

"The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough."

"If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true."

"The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow."

"Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good."

"He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon."

"Fortune is unstable, while our will is free."

"Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more."

"They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself."

"When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.""

"Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.""

"When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.""

"Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.""