The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Anand Thakur
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
PINDARSuccess abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDARThe forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDARI will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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.
PINDARThe days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDARIn all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDAROften silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDAREven now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
PINDARA thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDARTime is the best preserver of righteous men.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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