Pindar Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods.

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My soul, do not seek immortal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.

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But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.

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O bright and violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece, famous Athens, divine city!

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

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

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Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on men, and a gentle life.

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I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, like ravens, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

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If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.

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Best blessing of all is water,
And gold like a fiery flame gleaming at night,
Supreme amidst the pride of lordly wealth.

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

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Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet delight.

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When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their touch.

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

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Best is water, but gold stands out blazing like fire
at night beyond haughty wealth.

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Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals.

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

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They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.

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