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

Herodotus

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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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
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
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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