"In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers."
"Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?"
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Source: Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
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