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Men Quotes by Pindar
- When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
- Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
- 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…
- 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…
- Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
- Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
- Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
- Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
- Men are the dreams of a shadow.
- 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.
- Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
- If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
- 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…
- 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.
- Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
- We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
- Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
- Ariston men udor
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