Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARVarious are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
More Pindar Quotes
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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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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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Envy bestrides praise.
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The present will not long endure.
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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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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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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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