A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Variant translation: Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
Quoted by Plutarch. Variant translations: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos.
Epitaph of the Spartan Diviner, Megistias, at Thermopylae.
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