Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
PINDARThe days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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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Even genius is tied to profit.
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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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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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