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.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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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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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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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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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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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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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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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To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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