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ARCHILOCHUS
Greek poet and satirist
(c. 680 BC or 700 BC)

Let who will boast their courage in the field,
  I find but little safety from my shield,
    Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:
      This made me cast my useless shield away.
      - one version of his quote [War]

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
      - [Perfume]

And by a prudent flight and cunning save
  A life which valour could not, from the grave.
    A better buckler I can soon regain,
      But who can get another life again?
      - Fragment (VI),
        see Plutarch's "Morals", vol. I, "Essay of the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians", one version of quote
        [Life : War]


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