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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

Pindar

In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDAR

Action Lying Man Myself Speech
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
The test of any man lies in action.
PINDAR

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
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
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
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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Anand Thakur
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDAR

Noble Silence
Learn what you are and be such.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDAR

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

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

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

Fate Jealous Noble Pity
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Water is the best of all things.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Aspiration Immortal Limitation Myself Possible Soul
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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