Quotes from Simonides

Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

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

Fighting in the forefront of the Greeks, the Athenians crushed at Marathon the might of the gold-bearing Medes.

The city is teacher of the man.

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.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

We lost lovely youth facing the rough clouds of war

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest