Pindar Quotes

Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.

Best blessing of all is water, And gold like a fiery flame gleaming at night,
Supreme amidst the pride of lordly wealth.

οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίων
φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·
καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.

μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον
σπεῦδε, τὰν δ᾿ ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν.

But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is

ἁμέραι δ᾽ ἐπίλοιποι
μάρτυρες σοφώτατοι.

σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρ ἅτε διαπρέπει νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.

ῥῆμα δ᾽ ἑργμάτων χρονιώτερον βιοτεύει

Days to come will prove the surest witness.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

ἐπάμεροι: τί δέ τις;
τί δ᾽ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ
ἄνθρωπος. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ,
λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών