The test of any man lies in action.
PINDARThere 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.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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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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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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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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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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The present will not long endure.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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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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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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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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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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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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