With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDARTo each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
More Pindar Quotes
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Wrapt 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?
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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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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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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Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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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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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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