Pindar
Pindar
Pindarwas an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, 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, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems however can also seem difficult and...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
acceptance may strive
May God .. let me strive for attainable things.
kings law mortals
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
long endure difficult
The present will not long endure.
empty-mind envy mind
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
favors littles looks
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
dream shadow mankind
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
moving sea voice
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
authority conventions rulers
Convention is the ruler of all.
deeds dies
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
success heart achievement
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
envy praise
Envy bestrides praise.
success men hands
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
timeliness occasions knows
To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
dream men shadow
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.