Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDARLearn what you are and be such.
PINDARTime is the best preserver of righteous men.
PINDARA graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDARWater is the best of all things.
PINDAROften silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARWrapt 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?
PINDARIf 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.
PINDARI will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAREven now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
PINDARHumble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDARTo our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDARSuccess abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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