Pindar Quotes
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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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.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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.
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To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
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The present will not long endure.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Water is the best of all things.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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