Quote of Pindar - Men are the dreams of a...
Biography - Pindar:
Ancient Greek lyric poet. (*Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -552 - Died: -438
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -552 - Died: -438
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes for: dream
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Quotes for: shadow
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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