Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Simonides of Ceos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek poet Simonides of Ceos.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Included on this list was Bacchylides, his nephew, and Pindar, reputedly a bitter rival, both of whom benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry. Simonides, however, was more involved than either in the major events and with the personalities of their times.

Greek - Poet | 556 BC - 468 BC

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

Simonides of Ceos

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

Simonides of Ceos

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

Simonides of Ceos

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.

Simonides of Ceos

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides of Ceos

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?

Simonides of Ceos

The gods do not fight against necessity.

Simonides of Ceos

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

Simonides of Ceos

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

Simonides of Ceos

What is life without the joy of Love?

Simonides of Ceos

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

Simonides of Ceos

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