I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARMay God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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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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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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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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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Water is the best of all 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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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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