Pindar

* 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.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

Learn what you are and be such.

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

The test of any man lies in action.

The present will not long endure.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

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.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

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.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.