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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

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To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDAR

Noble Silence
There 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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Anand Thakur
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDAR

Day Dreams Man Shadow
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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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
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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Death Earth Move Sea Voice
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Envy bestrides praise.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.

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