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.
PINDARThe test of any man lies in action.
More Pindar Quotes
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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If 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.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Water is the best of all things.
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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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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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