Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
More Pindar Quotes
-
-
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
PINDAR -
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDAR -
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
PINDAR -
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
PINDAR -
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDAR -
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDAR -
Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDAR -
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
PINDAR -
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDAR -
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
PINDAR -
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.
PINDAR -
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAR -
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
PINDAR -
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDAR -
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDAR -
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDAR -
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.
PINDAR -
To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
PINDAR -
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDAR -
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
PINDAR -
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.
PINDAR -
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.
PINDAR -
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDAR -
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR -
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
PINDAR -
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDAR