To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARWords have a longer life than deeds.
PINDARI will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARA thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARLearn what you are and be such.
PINDARMay God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARForge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDARIf 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.
PINDARIt 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.
PINDARPoint thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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