Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Anand Thakur
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAREven success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDARWith our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDAROften silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARGreat deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARThe forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDARSuccess for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
PINDARMay God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARIf one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
PINDARWe are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARWords have a longer life than deeds.
PINDARI will be small in small things, great among great.
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