When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHOBuilders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
More Sappho Quotes
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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