Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSIf a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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