Simonides of Ceos Quotes

• If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Lying, Fate, Crowns

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• A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Good Woman, Gains

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• There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Tests, Breasts

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• It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Squares, Hands, Feet

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• Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Wife, Earth, Human Life

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• Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.

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• A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Wife, Good Wife

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• There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Happiness, Beauty, Beautiful

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• What is life without the joy of Love?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Joy, What Is Life

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• We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Life, Fate, Razors

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• Not even the gods fight against necessity.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Fighting, Martial Arts

  "Protagoras". Dialogue by Plato, 345d,

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• Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Littles, Concern

  Lyrica Graeca Selecta, (ed. D L Page), no.354.

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• The gods do not fight against necessity.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Fighting

  "Protagoras". Dialogue by Plato, 345d,

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