Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
More Pindar Quotes
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Learn what you are and be such.
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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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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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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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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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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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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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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.
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