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

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  Men, Silence, Heed

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• Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

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  Beautiful

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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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• 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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• Words have a longer life than deeds.

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  Deeds, English Language, Longer Life

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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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• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

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  Empty Mind, Envy, Mind

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

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  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• The test of any man lies in action.

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  Lying, Men, Tests

  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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• 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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  Dream, Men, Shadow

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

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

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  Lying, Action, Ends

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

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  Men, Righteous Man, Righteous

  "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.

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

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  Sweet, War, Latin

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

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  Mind, Should, Mortals

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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

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  Death, Moving, Men

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

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  Fate, Envied

  Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Musaeus (Grammaticus.) (1822). “The Odes of Pindar”, p.138

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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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• 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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• The present will not long endure.

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  Long, Endure, Difficult

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