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
death moving men
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
small-things
I will be small in small things, great among great.
dream men shadow
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
speech immortality said
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
time change-for-the-better eternity
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
success achievement effort
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
childhood age immortality
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
childhood age immortality
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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.