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~ Pindar Quotes ~
« on: July 29, 2015, 02:08:22 PM »
Pindar Quotes


An Ancient Greek lyric poet.
Pindar (ca. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence". The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis is said to have remarked that the poems of Pindar "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning".

Here are some famous quotes by Pindar.




Learn what you are and be such.

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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2015, 02:09:01 PM »
The present will not long endure.

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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2015, 02:09:47 PM »
The test of any man lies in action.

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May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2015, 02:11:10 PM »
Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2015, 02:12:00 PM »
Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2015, 02:12:54 PM »
Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2015, 02:13:36 PM »
Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2015, 02:14:06 PM »
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.