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Words have a longer life than deeds.

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Pindar
Mythographer
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Pindarus
Pindaros
Dircæan Swan
Life
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Envy bestrides praise.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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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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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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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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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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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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The present will not long endure.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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I will not steep my speech in lies the test of any man lies in action.
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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