Pindar Quotes

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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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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Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
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The present will not long endure.
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Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
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Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.
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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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Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.
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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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Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
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* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
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