Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.
Simonides of Ceos
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Simonides of Ceos
Elegist
Epigrammatist
Lyric Poet
Poet
Writer
Simonides of Keos
Wife
Cannot
Anything
Better
Good
Men
Possess
Worse
More quotes by 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
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides of Ceos
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
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
What is life without the joy of Love?
Simonides of Ceos
The gods do not fight against necessity.
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