Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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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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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.
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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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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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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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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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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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 forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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