There 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.

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDAR

God Happiness Road
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDAR

Action Lying Man Myself Speech
I will be small in small things, great among great.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDAR

Noble Silence
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
PINDAR

Aspiration Immortal Limitation Myself Possible Soul
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
The noblest of the elements is water.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAR

Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

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