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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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