Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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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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