Симонид цитаты

„Живопись — молчащая поэзия, а поэзия — звучащая живопись.“

„Справедливо отдавать каждому должное.“

„Трудно стать человеком, который хорош,
Безупречен, как квадрат,
И рукой, и ногой, и мыслью.“

„Если ты глуп, то поступаешь умно, но если умен, то поступаешь глупо.“

„Против необходимости не властны и сами боги.“

Молчащему гостю на пирушке

„Сказавши, часто в том раскаиваешься, а промолчавши — никогда.“

„Симонид, когда победитель на мулах предложил ему незначительную плату, отказался написать стихотворение под тем предлогом, что он затрудняется воспевать «полуослов». Когда же ему было предложено достаточное вознаграждение, он написал: «Привет вам, дочери быстроногих, как вихрь, кобылиц».“

„Богатым быть лучше, чем мудрым, потому что приходится видеть, как мудрецы постоянно торчат у дверей богатых.“

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”

Симонид: Цитаты на английском языке

“Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tē(i)de
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.”

Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f. Variant translations: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting. See also: Ut pictura poesis

“[Word-for-word translation]
O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here
We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient.”

“Not even the gods fight against necessity.”

Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Epitaph on the Cenotaph of Thermopylae, recorded by Herodotus.
There is a long unsolved dispute around the interpretation of the word rhemasi, such as laws, words or orders.
Variant translations:
Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie.
Stranger, go tell the men of Lacedaemon
That we, who lie here, did as we were ordered.
Stranger, bring the message to the Spartans that here
We remain, obedient to their orders.
Oh foreigner, tell the Lacedaemonians
That here we lie, obeying their words.
Go, tell the Spartans, passerby,
that here by Spartan law we lie.
Go, tell the Spartans
stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to Spartan law,
we dead of Sparta lie

“Here lies Megistias, who died
When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide.
A great seer, yet he scorned to save
Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave.”

Quoted by Plato in the dialogue Protagoras, 345d http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0177%3Atext%3DProt.%3Asection%3D345d (Simonides Fr. 37.1.27 ff.). Variant translations: The gods do not fight against necessity. Not even the gods war against necessity. I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend.

“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.”

Epitaph of the Spartan Diviner, Megistias, at Thermopylae