Learn what you are and be such.
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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?
More Pindar Quotes
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Learn what you are and be such.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Of 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.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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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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Though 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.
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