Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
PINDARFor lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
More Pindar Quotes
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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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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The present will not long endure.
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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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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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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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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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