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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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569 |
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AUTHOR:
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Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468? B.C.) |
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QUOTATION:
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Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought? |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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SIMONIDES of Ceos.—The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, trans. J. T. Sheppard, Introduction, p. xxxi (1920). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Excellence |
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