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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 569 |
| AUTHOR: | Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468? B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | 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? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | SIMONIDES of Ceos.—The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, trans. J. T. Sheppard, Introduction, p. xxxi (1920). |
| SUBJECTS: | Excellence |
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