To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDARWrapt 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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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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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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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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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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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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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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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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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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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