Pindar

“Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.”

“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.”

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,but exhaust the limits of the possible.”

“Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.”

“My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. ”

“Learn what you are and be such.”

“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“Become what you are.”