Pindar quotes

Envy bestrides praise.

Convention is the ruler of all.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

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

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?

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

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

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

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

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

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

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Learn what you are and be such.

Even genius is tied to profit.

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

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

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

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

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

The noblest of the elements is water

Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

The present will not long endure.

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.

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

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

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

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.

Water is the best of all things.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

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

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

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

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

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

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

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

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

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.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

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

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

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

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.

The test of any man lies in action.

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

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.

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.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

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

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

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

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

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

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