Lydia - Lydian Gods

Famous quotes containing the words lydian and/or gods:

“Softly sweet in Lydian measures
Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.
‘War’, he sung, ‘is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying.
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the Gods provide thee.’”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“Fate is never too generous—even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)