Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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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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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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If 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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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