The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUSVery few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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