To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAREnvy, the attendant of the empty mind.
PINDARThe days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
PINDARI will be small in small things, great among great.
PINDARIt 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.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARA good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDARThere 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.
PINDARWrapt 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?
PINDARMay God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARMan’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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