Pindar
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.Collection: Wisdom
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.Collection: Great
Men are the dreams of a shadow.Collection: Dreams
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affectionCollection: Christmas
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.Collection: Soul
Learn what you are and be such.Collection: Inspirational
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Dream
Words have a longer life than deeds.Collection: Deeds
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.Collection: Men
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.Collection: Lying
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.Collection: Empty Mind
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.Collection: Ambition
The test of any man lies in action.Collection: Lying
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.Collection: Speech
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.Collection: Dream
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.Collection: Humility
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.Collection: Dream
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.Collection: God
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.Collection: Heart
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.Collection: Men
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.Collection: Inspiration
The present will not long endure.Collection: Long
I will be small in small things, great among great.Collection: Small Things
Envy bestrides praise.Collection: Envy
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.Collection: Sweet
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.Collection: Mother
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.Collection: Success
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.Collection: Deeds
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.Collection: Teacher
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Collection: Childhood
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.Collection: Success
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessityCollection: Beautiful
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.Collection: Mind
Water is the best of all things.Collection: Science
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.Collection: Acceptance
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Moving
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.Collection: Night
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.Collection: Looks
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.Collection: Grieving
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.Collection: Fall
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listenCollection: Wise
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.Collection: Trust
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.Collection: Endurance
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.Collection: Lying
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.Collection: Light
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?Collection: Insecure
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.Collection: Death