Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Anand Thakur
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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.
PINDARWords have a longer life than deeds.
PINDARPoint thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARI will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
PINDARSuccess for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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.
PINDARWith our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDARMan’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDARLearn what you are and be such.
PINDAREven wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDAROf the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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?
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.
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