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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise

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