To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
More Pindar Quotes
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Envy bestrides praise.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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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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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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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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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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