Quotes from Pindar

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.

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

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

The best of healers is good cheer.

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

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

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

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

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

The present will not long endure.

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

The test of any man lies in action.

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

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

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

Learn what you are, and be such.

* 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.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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

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