Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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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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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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