Envy bestrides praise.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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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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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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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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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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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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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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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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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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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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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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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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May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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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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The test of any man lies in action.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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