Quotes from Simonides of Ceos

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

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

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

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

What is life without the joy of Love?

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

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?