Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
More Pindar Quotes
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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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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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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Convention is the ruler of all.
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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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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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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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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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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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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Learn what you are and be such.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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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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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