Pindar quotes:

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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

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.

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

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

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

Words have a longer life than deeds.

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

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

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

The best of healers is good cheer.

The present will not long endure.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Envy bestrides praise.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Even genius is tied to profit.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

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

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.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

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

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

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality

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

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.

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

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

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

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.

Learn what you are and be such.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

May God .. let me strive for attainable things.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

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.

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

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

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

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.

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

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

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

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

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

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

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

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

The noblest of the elements is water

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.

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.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

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

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

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

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

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

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

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

War is sweet to them that know it not.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

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

Water is the best of all things.

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

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

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?

Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.

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.

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