Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Words have a longer life than deeds. - Pindar
Words have a longer life than deeds.
- Pindar
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. - Pindar
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. - Pindar
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God. - Pindar
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. - Pindar
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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, th… - Pindar
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, th…
Learn what you are and be such. - Pindar
Learn what you are and be such.
The test of any man lies in action. - Pindar
The test of any man lies in action.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. - Pindar
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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