One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
More Pindar Quotes
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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The present will not long endure.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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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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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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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.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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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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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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