It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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