Pindar - Man Quotes

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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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Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on men, and a gentle life.

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Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.

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If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.

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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

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But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.

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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

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