Pindar Quotes

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Water is the best of all things.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

The noblest of the elements is water

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

The present will not long endure.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

Learn what you are and be such.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.