15 Quotes by Callimachus

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)

...ἀμάρτυρον οὐδὲν ἀείδω...

A good man never dies.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

A great book is like great evil.

Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella’s wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.