I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Anand Thakur
I will be small in small things, great among great.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDAREven genius is tied to profit.
PINDARMen are the dreams of a shadow.
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.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARWater is the best of all things.
PINDARO my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDARMankind is a dream of a shadow.
PINDARThere 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.
PINDARThe present will not long endure.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDARThe noblest of the elements is water.
PINDAREven wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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