To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDARIf 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.
More Pindar Quotes
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Learn what you are and be such.
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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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May 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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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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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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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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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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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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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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The noblest of the elements is water.
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