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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

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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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Age Chilren Education
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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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Fortune Luck Men Side

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