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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Pindar

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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAR

Fate Jealous Noble Pity
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
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Learn what you are and be such.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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
Envy bestrides praise.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
The present will not long endure.
PINDAR

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

Anand Thakur
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?
PINDAR

Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset

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