Simonides of Ceos Quotes

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• O xein!, angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti teide keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi.
• Here lies Megistias, who died When the Mede passed Sephulchros' tide; A Prophet, though he would not save Himself, sharing the Spartan grave.
• Not even the gods fight against necessity.
• We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
• A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
• 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?
• It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
• The city is the teacher of the man.
• There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
• We count it death to falter, not to die.

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