"Envy bestrides praise." — Pindar
"Envy bestrides praise."
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- Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
- There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
- A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
- When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
- For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
- Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
- Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
- Learn what you are and be such.
- Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
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