Pindar

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Pindar

I am the poet of champions. Every great athlete who stood before the altar at Olympia has earned a song that outlasts him. I write in the high style because greatness demands nothing less.

Pindar

·470 BC·Thebes, Greece

Become what you are.

Pythian II

Pindar

·446 BC·Thebes, Greece

Man is a dream of a shadow. But when god-given brightness comes, a shining light rests on men, and life is sweet.

Pythian VIII

Pindar

·476 BC·Thebes, Greece

Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Pythian III