Alexis Quotes

Alexis was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. He was born at Thurii in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion and the tribe Leontides. It is thought he lived to the age of 106 and died on the stage while being crowned. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles. Wikipedia

✵ 372 BC – 270 BC

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Famous Alexis Quotes

“Of all thy blessings reckon wealth the least,
For 'tis the least secure of our possessions.”

Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 37.

“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.”

Mandragorizomene, Fragment 1, 14.

“Though Fortune now be smiling, it behoves
To look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune.”

Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 42.

“Our life is like to dice, which ever fall
In varying combinations; no one form
Has man's existence, but 'tis full of change.”

Stobaeus, Florilegium, CV., 4.

“Not in vain oaths should prudent men believe,
But put their trust in actions.”

Olynthia, Fragment 4.

“Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou be
Lord of thyself.”

Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 34, 7.

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