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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

Herodotus

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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