There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future. Hanging impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
—Pindar
Topics: Acceptance
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
—Pindar
Topics: Wisdom
Skills vary with the man. We must … strive by that which is born in us.
—Pindar
Topics: Abilities, Work, Talents
The present will not long endure.
—Pindar
Topics: Difficulty
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
—Pindar
Topics: Truth
May God … let me strive for attainable things.
—Pindar
Topics: Expectations, Awareness, Acceptance, Realistic Expectations, Realization
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
—Pindar
Topics: Beauty
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
—Pindar
Topics: Aging, Age
Learn what you are and be such.
—Pindar
Topics: Acceptance, Being Ourselves, Self-love, Awareness, Self-Knowledge, Realization
Custom is the universal sovereign.
—Pindar
Topics: Custom
Time, in the turning-over of days, works change for better or worse.
—Pindar
Topics: Resilience, Change, Patience
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
—Pindar
Topics: Men
The test of any man lies in action.
—Pindar
Topics: Secrets of Success, Action
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
—Pindar
Topics: Affection, Gifts, Gift
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
—Pindar
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- Sophocles Ancient Greek Dramatist
- Hesiod Greek Poet
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