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Pindar

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* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.


— Pindar


#history #war #experience

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.


— Pindar


#every #face #heed #man #often

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.


— Pindar


#choose #deeds #enrich #give #great

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.


— Pindar


#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

Learn what you are and be such.


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#such #you

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.


— Pindar


#full #immortals #life #my soul #reach

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.


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#self-interest #wisdom #yield

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.


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#affection #even #every #gift #given

The best of healers is good cheer.


— Pindar


#cheer #good #good cheer #healers

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.


— Pindar


#days #still #wisest #witnesses






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Nemean 7 in fact is the most controversial and obscure of Pindar's victory odes and scholars ancient and modern have been ingenious and imaginative in their attempts to explain it so far with no agreed success. Pindar (Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros pronounced [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus) (c. During the invasion in 480/79 BC when Pindar was almost forty years old Thebes was occupied by Xerxes' general Mardonius who with many Theban aristocrats subsequently periPindard at the Battle of Plataea.

Pindar (Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros pronounced [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus) (c. 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. The brilliance of his poetry then began to be more widely appreciated.

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