I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARMen are the dreams of a shadow.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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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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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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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To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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