Pindar Quotes

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there ...

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the ...

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

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Learn what you are and be such.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing...

Learn what you are and be such.

The present will not long endure.

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

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of i...

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

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The test of any man lies in action.

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.