Citas de Simónides de Ceos

• What is life without the joy of Love?

  Simónides de Ceos

  Joy, What Is Life

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

  Simónides de Ceos

  Men, Littles, Concern

  Lyrica Graeca Selecta, (ed. D L Page), no.354.

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

  Simónides de Ceos

  Felicidad, Belleza, Hermoso

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• Un hombre no puede poseer nada que sea mejor que una buena esposa, ni nada que sea peor que una mala.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Hombres, Esposa, Buena Esposa

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• There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Men, Tests, Breasts

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• 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?

  Simónides de Ceos

  Hombres, Perfectos, Mente

  "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.

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• A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Men, Good Woman, Gains

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

  Simónides de Ceos

  Squares, Hands, Feet

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

  Simónides de Ceos

  Wife, Earth, Human Life

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• 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.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Lying, Fate, Crowns

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• Not even the gods fight against necessity.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Fighting, Martial Arts

  "Protagoras". Dialogue by Plato, 345d,

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

  Simónides de Ceos

  Life, Fate, Razors

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• The gods do not fight against necessity.

  Simónides de Ceos

  Lucha contra

  "Protagoras". Dialogue by Plato, 345d,

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