If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
More Herodotus Quotes
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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