15 Quotes by Simonides

All these victors from the Tyrrhenian warswe're on their way to Apollo at Delphwith their first plunderwhen they found, their graveon one night, in one ship, in one deep sea.

All these victors from the Tyrrhenian warswere on their way to Apollo at Delphiwith their first plunderwhen they found, their graveon one night, in one ship, in one deep sea.

If you are a simple mortal, do not speakof tomorrow or how long this man may be among the happy, for change comes suddenly like the shifting flight of a dragonfly.

One thousand years, ten thousand years are but a tiny dot,the smallest segment of a point,an invisible hair.

Without the gods a man or city can do nothing.Only God knows everything, and mansuffers for what he does.There is no evilman may not expect, and soonGod wipes away the few thingshe may have done.

Be sure, stranger, to let the Spartans knowthat we lie here obedient to their command.