Pindar Quotes


"Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest."
- Pindar
(Related: Wisdom, Self, Yield)

"The best of healers is good cheer."
- Pindar
"Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen."
- Pindar
(Related: Men, Choice, Deeds)

"Learn what you are and be such."
- Pindar
"Men are the dreams of a shadow."
- Pindar
(Related: Dreams, Men, Shadow)

"Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed."
- Pindar
(Related: Truth, Man, Silence)

"Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach."
- Pindar
(Related: Life, Soul)

"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."
- Pindar
"The test of any man lies in action."
- Pindar
(Related: Action, Lies, Man)

"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."
- Pindar
(Related: Necessity)

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."
- Pindar
(Related: Age, Childhood, Immortality, Old)

"The present will not long endure."
- Pindar
(Related: Present, Will)