Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDARRich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDARA good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDARMany a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
PINDARTo our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
PINDARPoint thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDARSuccess abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDARThe present will not long endure.
PINDARMan’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARIt 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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