O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
More Pindar Quotes
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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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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Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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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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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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