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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.

Herodotus

Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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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Body Food Health Soul
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together

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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