For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
More Pindar Quotes
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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May 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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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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It 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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Water is the best of all things.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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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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Even genius is tied to profit.
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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?
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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