The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUSMen trust their ears less than their eyes.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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