Pindar famous quotes
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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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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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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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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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Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
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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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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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War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
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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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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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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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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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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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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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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
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Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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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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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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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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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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