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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUS

Death Happy Men
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
HERODOTUS

Death Father Peace War
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS

Believe Bound Cases Myself
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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

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