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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Herodotus

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
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
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
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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