Tag: Pindar

Here profits not

To tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled.

Often is man’s best wisdom to be silent.

Pindar

Know thyself and stay true to that understanding

Pindar

Creatures of a day! What is a man?

What is he not? A dream of a shadow

Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men

A gleam of splendour given of Heaven,

Then rests on them a light of glory

And blessèd are their days.

Pindar

War is sweet to them that know it not.

but the warrior’s heart quakes at its approach

Pindar