"τάχ᾽ αὔριον ἔσσετ᾽ ἄμεινον ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες"
Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
"Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity. The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral... But it is enough that all others [pastoral writers] learned their excellence from him, and that his dialect alone has a secret charm in it, which no other could ever attain."
"Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides."
"That which distinguishes Theocritus from all other Poets, both Greek and Latin, and which raises him even above Virgil in his Eclogues, is the inimitable tenderness of his passions, and the natural expression of them in words so becoming of a Pastoral."
"Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendships gifts are priceless all.""
"Faults are beauties, when surveyd by love."
"The godly seed fares well: the wickeds is accurst."