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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
I will be small in small things, great among great.
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
Become what you are.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
The present will not long endure.
Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Convention is the ruler of all.
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
The best of healers is good cheer.
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
The test of any man lies in action.
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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.
Water is the best of all things.
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
War is sweet to those who never tried it.
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
But in one short span of time winds quickly shift direction, veering back and forth.
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
