Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
PINDARA good deed hidden in silence dies.
More Pindar Quotes
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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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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Water is the best of all things.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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My 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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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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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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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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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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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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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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The present will not long endure.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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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.
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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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The test of any man lies in action.
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