There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDARThe forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARWrapt 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?
PINDARRich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
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.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARWith our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDARFor lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDARThough 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.
PINDARTo bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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