Great Throughts Treasury
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Pindar NULL
Ancient Greek Lyric Poet, greatest of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece
"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."
"There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent."
"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."
"Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving."
"The forehead of every work must shine from afar."
"To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure."
"Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse."
"With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us."
"Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes."