Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARHumble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
More Pindar Quotes
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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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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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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Convention is the ruler of all.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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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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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Water is the best of all things.
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