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Words have a longer life than deeds.

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Pindar
Mythographer
Poet
Pindarus
Pindaros
Dircæan Swan
Deeds
Longer
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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 bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
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Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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The noblest of the elements is water
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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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 now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Water is the best of all things.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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In all things rest is sweet there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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