I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Simonides

Tags: philosopher platonic greek 314 396 bc

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Dancing is silent poetry.

Simonides

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides

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Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

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The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

Simonides

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O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we
Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.

Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.

[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]

Simonides

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