Best 13 quotes of Simonides on MyQuotes

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

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?

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.

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

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

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

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

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

What is life without the joy of Love?

No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enough if someone is other than bad—not too much out of hand, conscious at least of the justice that helps the city, a healthy man. No I shall not lay blame. Because fools are a species that never ends. All things, you know, are beautiful with which ugly things are not mixed.

O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed. Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. [Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]

We are all debts owed to death.