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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.

Herodotus

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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
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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Country Egypt World
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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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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