Pindar Quotes

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.

Learn what you are and be such.

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

* 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.

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

The present will not long endure.

The test of any man lies in action.

Learn what you are and be such.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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