It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
Simonides of CeosOf earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides of CeosWe did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
Simonides of Ceos