Simonides of Ceos quotes

" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks. " # Poetry and Poets # Arts and Artists # Silence

" ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. "

" Here lies Megistias, who died When the Mede passed Sephulchros' tide; A Prophet, though he would not save Himself, sharing the Spartan grave. " # Life and Living # Death and Dying # Time and Time Management

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

" 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? " # Excellence # Fashion # Action

" It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish. " # Christians and Christianity # Excellence # Love

" We count it death to falter, not to die. " # Death and Dying