I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARWith our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
More Pindar Quotes
-
-
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDAR -
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR -
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDAR -
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDAR -
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
PINDAR -
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
PINDAR -
Envy bestrides praise.
PINDAR -
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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 -
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAR -
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDAR -
War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
PINDAR -
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDAR -
Water is the best of all things.
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