Top 86 Pindar Quotes
#1. Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. * 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.
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#3. He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
Horace
#4. He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.
E. M. Forster
#5. Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet
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Gilbert Murray
#6. A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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#7. Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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#8. We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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#9. Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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#10. The test of any man lies in action.
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#11. Convention is the ruler of all.
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#12. For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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#13. Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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#14. There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.
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#15. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
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#16. To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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#17. Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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#18. The present will not long endure.
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#19. If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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#20. Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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#21. Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Water is the best of all things.
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#24. There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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#25. To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
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#26. To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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#27. But in one short span of time winds quickly shift direction, veering back and forth.
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#28. When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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#29. Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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#30. Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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#31. Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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#32. Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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#33. Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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#34. Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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#35. Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
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#36. The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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#39. One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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#40. Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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#41. Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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#42. Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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#43. A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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#46. Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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#47. In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
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#48. I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.
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#49. I will be small in small things, great among great.
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#50. Even genius is tied to profit.
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#51. Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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#52. It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
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#53. My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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#54. Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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#55. Become what you are.
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#56. War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
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#57. Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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#60. The noblest of the elements is water
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#61. The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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#62. 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?
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#63. O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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#64. Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.
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#67. Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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#68. With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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#69. War is sweet to those who never tried it.
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#70. Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
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#71. Learn what you are and be such.
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#72. War is sweet to them that know it not.
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#73. To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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#74. Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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#75. Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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#76. You should be living your life like a cavalry charge, or at least writing about it." Robert Knight in 'Hoofing It
Ian M Pindar
#77. He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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#78. Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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#79. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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#80. A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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#81. Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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#82. The best of healers is good cheer.
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#83. My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.
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#84. Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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#85. Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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#86. Words have a longer life than deeds.
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