Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
PINDARUnsung, the noblest deed will die.
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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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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Water is the best of all things.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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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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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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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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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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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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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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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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 graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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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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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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