"In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers."
"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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Source: Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
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