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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Herodotus

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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

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