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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.

Herodotus

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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
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
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness

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