“Stranger, go back to Sparta and tell our people that we who were slain obeyed the code.” Quote by Simonides
“One thousand years, ten thousand years are but a tiny dot, the smallest segment of a point, an invisible hair.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“With mindless bravura Ares washed his long sleek arrowheads in the crimson waters within their chests, and dust now lies not on the living flesh of javeliners, but on the vivid remnants of lifeless bodies.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“All these victors from the Tyrrhenian wars we're on their way to Apollo at Delph with their first plunder when they found, their grave on one night, in one ship, in one deep sea.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own - that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.” AgeTimeYouth Book:The Superannuated Man Source: The Superannuated Man
“All these victors from the Tyrrhenian wars were on their way to Apollo at Delphi with their first plunder when they found, their grave on one night, in one ship, in one deep sea.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“If you are a simple mortal, do not speak of tomorrow or how long this man may be among the happy, for change comes suddenly like the shifting flight of a dragonfly.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“Without the gods a man or city can do nothing. Only God knows everything, and man suffers for what he does. There is no evil man may not expect, and soon God wipes away the few things he may have done.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“I who lie here, Brotachos of Gortyn, was born in Krete, and I did not come here for death but weighty business.” Willis BarnstoneSimonides Author:Simonides
“When her fate rested on the razor's edge, we gave away our lives to save all Greece.” Willis BarnstoneEpitaphSimonides Author:Simonides
“Be sure, stranger, to let the Spartans know that we lie here obedient to their command.” SimonidesEdmund Keeley Author:Simonides