Pindar Quotes

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• Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
• The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
• Men are the dreams of a shadow.
• Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
• I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.
• Sweet is war to those who know it not.
• Words have a longer life than deeds.
• 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…
• The test of any man lies in action.
• 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…
• Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
• If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
• To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
• 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…
• I will be small in small things, great among great.
• Even genius is tied to profit.
• 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…
• Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
• Envy bestrides praise.
• In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

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