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.
PINDARWar is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
More Pindar Quotes
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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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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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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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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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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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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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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Water is the best of all things.
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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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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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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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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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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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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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