We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
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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.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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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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Envy bestrides praise.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Creatures 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.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Water is the best of all 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 graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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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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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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