A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
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.
PINDAR

Death Earth Move Sea Voice
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
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAR

Fate Jealous Noble Pity
The noblest of the elements is water.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDAR

God Happiness Road

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