Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSMen trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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