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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
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
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge

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