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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

Pindar

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
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?
PINDAR

Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDAR

Action Lying Man Myself Speech
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

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