Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
More Pindar Quotes
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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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.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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