Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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