To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDAREven now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
More Pindar Quotes
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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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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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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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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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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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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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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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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.
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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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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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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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