Pindar Quotes

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

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  Christmas, Reality, Affection

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

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  Soul, Limits, Immortal Life

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• Learn what you are and be such.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Words have a longer life than deeds.

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  Deeds, English Language, Longer Life

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• 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.

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  Dream, Sunshine, Men

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

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  Men, Silence, Heed

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, Joy

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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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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  Ambition, Hunting, Hands

  Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”

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

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  Acceptance, May, Strive

  "The odes of Pindar".

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• 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.

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  Mother, Men, Differences

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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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  Truth, Healing, Men

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• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

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  Empty Mind, Envy, Mind

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

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  Speech, Immortality, Said

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

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Light

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

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  Inspiration, Genius, Natural

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• Water is the best of all things.

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  Science, Rivers, Water

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• Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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  Dream, Shadow, Mankind

  'Pythian Odes' bk. 8, l. 135

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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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  Wise, Men, Giving

  Pindar (1928). “Pythian odes”

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

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  Endurance, Kicking, Yoke

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• 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.

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  Running, Men, Hands

  "Pythian odes".

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• 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?

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  Insecure, Errors, Long

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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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  Moving, Sea, Voice

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• 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.

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  God, Men, Eagles

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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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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  Grieving, Giving, Sorrow

  Gilbert West, Pindar (1753). “Odes of Pindar: With Several Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is Added A Dissertation on Olympick Games”, p.111

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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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  Mother, Men, Race

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