Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.

Pindar

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Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Pindar

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Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Pindar

Tags: existence philosophy human-nature

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