In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
PINDAROften silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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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?
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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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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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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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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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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