Pindar Quotes

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

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

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

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

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

The noblest of the elements is water

Even genius is tied to profit.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

Envy bestrides praise.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

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

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

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

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

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 future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

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

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