Симонид цитаты

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

—  Симонид

Молчащему гостю на пирушке

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

—  Симонид

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

—  Симонид

„Справедливо отдавать каждому должное.“

—  Симонид

„Против необходимости не властны и сами боги.“

—  Симонид

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

—  Симонид

„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».“

—  Симонид

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

—  Симонид

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

—  Simonides of Ceos

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
Добавить примечание: (el) … zographian poiesin sioposan prosagoreuei, ten de poiesin zographian lalousan.

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

—  Simonides of Ceos

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

—  Simonides of Ceos

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

„Not even the gods fight against necessity.“

—  Simonides of Ceos

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.
Добавить примечание: (el) "Anankei d' oude theoi makhontai."

„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.“

—  Simonides of Ceos

Epitaph of the Spartan Diviner, Megistias, at Thermopylae

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

—  Simonides of Ceos

From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos