Pindar Quotes

• Todo regalo, por pequeño que sea, es en realidad grande, si se hace con afecto.

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  Christmas, Reality, Affection

  55 Copiar cita

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

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  Soul, Limits, Immortal Life

  26 Copiar cita

• Learn what you are and be such.

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  Inspiración, Liderazgo, Deportes

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

  28 Copiar cita

• 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

  9 Copiar cita

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

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  Men, Silence, Heed

  22 Copiar cita

• 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

  26 Copiar cita

• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

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  Empty Mind, Envy, Mind

  10 Copiar cita

• Words have a longer life than deeds.

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  Deeds, English Language, Longer Life

  26 Copiar cita

• Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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  Dream, Shadow, Mankind

  'Pythian Odes' bk. 8, l. 135

  12 Copiar cita

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

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  Speech, Immortality, Said

  10 Copiar cita

• 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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  Humildad, Humilde, Orgullo

  7 Copiar cita

• 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”

  8 Copiar cita

• 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”

  8 Copiar cita

• 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”

  4 Copiar cita

• The test of any man lies in action.

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  Lying, Men, Tests

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

  8 Copiar cita

• 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”

  22 Copiar cita

• 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.

  10 Copiar cita

• Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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  Wisdom, Yield, Self

  7 Copiar cita

• 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”

  8 Copiar cita

• 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”

  17 Copiar cita

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

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  Inspiration, Genius, Natural

  14 Copiar cita

• 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

  18 Copiar cita

• Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

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  Deeds, Dies

  8 Copiar cita

• 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

  18 Copiar cita

• Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

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  Success, Men, Hands

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

  4 Copiar cita

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