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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Herodotus

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
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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

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