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.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
More Pindar Quotes
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Water is the best of all things.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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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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The test of any man lies in action.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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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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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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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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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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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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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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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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The present will not long endure.
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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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